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Mental Ray Tutorials and .mi
Hey, I'm trying to learn Mental Ray so I downloaded the book tutorial from the mental ray site, but it just gave me a zip filled with a bunch of .mi files and a few other ones. Anyone know what .mi is for and how I can use it? Or know of other tutorials for it? Thanks. -
[Maya] How to scale these free online rigs (Mery and Ray)?
For my animation class, I chose to use two free rigs I found online, Mery and CGTarian's Ray. I ran into a problem where one of the characters was much larger than the other but I couldn't find a way to scale either of them. Neither of them had global controls or anything I could use to properly change their size when I… -
To RAID or not to RAID
I've got three 1 terabyte HDDs and Win7 64 bit. I'm thinking of doing a reformat and setting it up as a RAID 0 (Striping only) and having an online and offline backup set for my data files. Is the speed increase and efficiency of striping worth it? The apps I use are 3dsMax2012, Mudbox, Sculptris, Photoshop, Sketchbook… -
Create Mental Ray Node
I wish I knew someone who knew Maya so I didn't have to post small questions like this but... Does anyone know how I can get the Create Mental Ray Node to appear? I'm trying to do an ao bake on my object and I can't switch to the Create Mental Ray Node. -
Re: Nvidia Control Panel
You can still skip the Nvidia experience still I think. I thought they were deprecating the control panel and leaving it to the OS - maybe not, I leave that stuff well alone Anyway, if you're that bothered about privacy windows is a dead end. A good middle ground is to move your day-day computer usage to linux(not Ubuntu… -
maya mental ray ambient occlusion bake weirdness
Hi all. First time poster, long time lurker here. I'm encountering some weirdness while using batch bake(mental ray) to bake ambient occlusion for a ground terrain object in a level in Maya. If I bake my 1k map within my working scene file, i get a massively blurry result with no fine detail. However if I copy/paste the… -
Megascans to V-Ray
Hello there, I have exported a texture from Megascans to Maya V-Ray but I don't get the results I have expected. I'm sort of new to V-Ray and I don't exactly know what maps it needs and where they go. This is my material with the maps I connected And this is the result. It lacks detail, the normal still looks flat in the… -
freeze ray rifle!
I'm working on this freeze ray idea i came up with. The upper part of it shoots out the ray to freeze people then the lower barrel can shoot out a metal slug to shatter the frozen person. If anyone has any ideas on how i can make it look a little better that would be great! I'm trying to figure out a good way to connect… -
Dark Knight blu-ray
If you have a HDTV and a blu-ray player you have to own this movie! OMFG its the definition of eye candy, hell its better its eye sex! Every time it switches to the 16x9 imax film i have a a nerdgasim from the sheer amount of detail for my eyes to soak up. Anyone else pick it up on blu-ray? -
Baking AO with Mental Ray ...... HELL!!
Hi there again! So I've been able to bake AO using the Skylight method in 3DS max 2012.:) However, the results are not as good as Mental ray. The skylight method would always leave a light rim in corners using intersecting geometry. MR does not. I've been experimenting with MR and the big trouble I'm having with it right…
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