I can't seem to get Maya batch render to render. I keep getting the "Error: line 0: Cannot start batch render process" I google the problem and tried what their solution. It was working before but has stopped. I assume that it was my antivirus that stopped it from working, but haven't figure out how to get it to work. I…
Just started using mentalray again in Maya7. I've incountered a similar problem, my render was coming out with the wrong materials applied to the model, even though I had an exact duplicate of the model beside it rendering fine. The problem may be old shading group connections to your geo. Check your model in the…
This one I really need help with... I've finished my new portfolio scene with shader maps assigned to and all but when I booted up to do final renders today, Mental Ray suddenly could not render. The script editor said it's out of memory, I tried restarting and optimize scene size but nothing is helping it. This is what my…
Is it possible to desaturate the colour of a photon that bounces of a surface. I'd like a global control we have a lot of saturated textures in our scene and these are bouncing quite saturated light around the world. Right now I'm using global illumination scale set to 0.8 to fix some of it.
If you're using mentalray you should delete the skylight. It's not really for mentalray. To use AO on textures in mentalray try using the mentalray ambient occlusion shader and use a RGB multiply to combine it with your diffuse texture in max. But I'd combine your map in photoshop afterwards as it'll be easier to edit your…
There's another problem. I wrote this after I closed down Maya, and I just brought it back up to reopen my file, and evidently the part that was in question is now gone from the viewports. Here's the scene itself, along with what's going on in the script editor. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v416/temetry/maya1.jpg…
Baking and Rendering in 3ds max Thought this thread may be useful to some people who wish to get better bakes/renders in max :) Over the years I have experimented with max and have come to a common ground where test settings allow a fast feedback with good enough quality to read errors. The production settings are at a…
In my opinion maya software and mentalray are both shit but mentalray is definately better. You will most likely have to post sharpen the images you get out of maya software as they are blurry town. I don't recommend switing mid project though as mentalray has different colour and intensity values so if you have tuned your…
Hi Scott, if all you want to do is render out a room of whiteness with nice shading to show form, there are a few ways to do this. Below are the three I know of listed in order of hassle and render time. Maya7 only hypershade> create mentalray node> texture tab> mid_amb_occlusion> hook this node up to the ambient channel…