http://area.autodesk.com/forum/ The Area en Copyright 2012 2012-05-21T03:05:29+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/where-is-turtle-motion-blur/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/where-is-turtle-motion-blur/page-last/#When:03:14:00Z sorry but, I can't find motion blur in Turtle...I see old Documentations and MotionBlur was there if someone knows please...(Turtle is mutch faster than Mental-ray in Maya, thanks for this) 2012-05-19T03:14:00+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/maya-fisheye-camera/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/maya-fisheye-camera/page-last/#When:10:40:53Z I would like to respectfully request a fish-eye camera for Maya software rendering. I work for a Planetarium that is upgrading to “full-Dome” video projection and the proper camera will allow Dome mastering animation direct from Maya. I have heard that 3D studio max currently has a fish-eye. Why not import this into Maya? I realize the Planetarium community is a small portion of your user base but full-Dome immersive theaters are growing and the need for such tools can only allow more time to display the great and powerful visuals possible with Maya software. I should think an adjustable fish-eye camera would also be useful for others especially if it has adjustable attributes like keystoning, for example. Please let me know if I’m off base here or if a solution exists that I am unaware of? Thanks in advance, I apologize if this quest had been posted before. 2012-05-18T10:40:53+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/mental-ray-rendering-and-video-processing-in-sony-vegas-10-not-pro/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/mental-ray-rendering-and-video-processing-in-sony-vegas-10-not-pro/page-last/#When:09:27:35Z This drifts into another software a bit but... I have made a model animation and want to render out a video. Since I am using Mental Ray I know I can't render out a video straight so I imported it into Sony Vegas 10 (not pro), but I'm getting poor results: - The video tends to play at the wrong speed. What is the correct setting for it in Sony Vegas? - The video seems to repeat bits (e.g. 1-10, repeat, 10-20, estimation for example) Any solutions? I tried Playblast, but which yielded poor results with no lights and the light etc. icons rendered in the video. 2012-05-15T09:27:35+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/having-trouble-with-backburner/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/having-trouble-with-backburner/page-last/#When:09:10:18Z I am having trouble getting more than two servers to stay connected to the Manager. The Manager in this case is a physical Linux machine running a 64 bit version of Scientific Linux (Redhat clone). The servers are running Windows XP-64. Everything has gone fine with the software setup until now. Steps to reproduce: • Launch Server on each render node and configure the settings to connect to the Manager. Server confirms connection to Manager and the Server is displayed in the Web Monitor • Repeat this process on Server #2. Server shows up in Web Monitor and confirms connection to the Manager • Repeat this process on Server #3 • Either Server 1 or Server 2 get disconnected and Server 3 now shows up in Web Monitor. If I check on the Server that got dropped the Server dialogue says: [code]WRN: Manager is not responding[/code] If I wait a while and come back to Web Monitor and hit refresh a different Server gets dropped, with one of the missing servers taking its place. It is all very strange. They are all connected to the same Gigabit Ethernet switch so communication should not be a problem. SELinux and IPTables have both been disabled on the Linux machine running Manager and Web Monitor. 2012-05-15T09:10:18+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/backburner-or-mentalray-satellite/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/backburner-or-mentalray-satellite/page-last/#When:07:36:19Z Hi all, I use Maya 2012 on my machine with a stand-alone license and I have a second machine that could be used for only the render process (it has a great computing power) but I dont want work on it. I'm looking for someone that explain me which are the differences for this two products and what is the best way to render with network machines (as my configuration). I know the "Mentalray Satellite" and I used it for a while but really dont know anything about "Backburner" and how it works... is it faster? is it more configurable? what are the permissions for the jobs? etc. so I give you the floor. 2012-05-15T07:36:19+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/maya-camera-crop-render-script-and-other-features/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/maya-camera-crop-render-script-and-other-features/page-last/#When:12:31:44Z Heya I have 18k render to do from which around 1/10 is the subject that needs rendering. Maya deal very badly with such big resolution and I was wondering if there is a way to do crop render like 3ds max? Or is there a script that allowes me to zoom in and so on to the area I need to render? Also is there a way to do tile rendering or so ? So it will cut the render area on x render crops so that it can be more efficiently rendered / kinda like tire rendering in BB? Thanks, bye. 2012-05-14T12:31:44+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/render-layers-not-working-in-maya-2012-and-maya-2013/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/render-layers-not-working-in-maya-2012-and-maya-2013/page-last/#When:11:19:36Z It is quite frustrating to find out on batch rendering render layers are not working.batch rendering is only rendering one layer and ignoring rest of the layers. Surprisingly the same issue is also happening in Maya 2013 .It is very unfortunate to render each layer separately like the old school way. Could some one please let me know why this is happening even though script editor shows it is in progress but never moves beyond zero percent of rendering for other layers, even if you let it render for over night. I don't believe Maya users and Maya developer never faced this issue before as many forums people have mentioned this issue.still looking for some answers/solutions to rectify this issue. 2012-05-09T11:19:36+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/maya-crash-attempting-to-save-in-cusersvladivpgappdatalocaltemp-please-help/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/maya-crash-attempting-to-save-in-cusersvladivpgappdatalocaltemp-please-help/page-last/#When:08:05:19Z hope that someone has had a the same or a similar problem with Maya at rendering time: [color=red]Fatal Error. Attempting to save in C:/Users/vladivpg/AppData/Local/Temp/vladivpg.20120503.2242.ma // Maya exited with status 1[/color] I use to have it before with the previous versions of Maya all the way from 2010 to 2012 and I never managed to figure out what is the cause of it. Until now I have maybe more than 3000 crashes with this error message, it is about to ruin every single project that I have done with Maya. All the software that I use is legal. I tryed to cleanup my scene: topology, UVs ... basically everything that is included with mesh cleanup tool and optimize scene size I got no warnings when I run render diagnostics. I turned off the triple buffering of my video card and I did tried to delete the windows prefs and maya.env ... folders in order to revert Maya to its defaults settings but there is no results. I got a fresh installation of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit with Maya 2013 student licence my computer parametars are Dell Precision 7400 Intel Xeon 3.40 GHz Nvidia Qadro FX 4600 8 GB ECC memory 2012-05-09T08:05:19+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/paint-effects-error---different-scene-units/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/paint-effects-error---different-scene-units/page-last/#When:15:53:10Z Hello, I have painted a whole bunch of strokes onto a surface in Maya in a scene that was created in meters. When I reference this into my other files (all made in centimeters) the pfx disappears. I found a reference to this being an error in an old post by Duncan in 2009, but it seems that this has not been fixed. While looking further, I found a post (again by duncan) where he had made a mel script that can create curves from strokes, called curveFromStroke.mel With that I could duplicated out my strokes into a separate file and apply a stroke to the curves. But, this is from a post in 2005, and the file is no longer attached and I can find it nowhere online. http://forums.cgsociety.org/archive/index.php/t-230158.html Does anyone have any solutions? It was quite a bit of work painting in these strokes, and I need to somehow get them to working in a centimeter scene. Any help would be appreciated. 2012-05-07T15:53:10+02:00 http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/issue-with-render-layers-batch-render-doesnt-render-them-all/page-last/ http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-maya/lighting---rendering/issue-with-render-layers-batch-render-doesnt-render-them-all/page-last/#When:13:12:12Z Hi, I am having an issue with rendering a scene. I have 6 render layers (2 beauty layers (just dividing the objects in my scene into two), 2 occlusion (objects/background), shadows, and a layer with a shadow from sort of like a gobo). Got a few passes for the beauty layers (diffuse,spec,reflection,refraction,indirect,motion vector). The problem is that when I want to batch render all these layers it just stops after completing one layer (apart from one layer where it does continue to the next): // Result: Rendering Completed. See mayaRenderLog.txt for information. // When I look in the renderlog I see this in the end: DB 0.0 fatal 041052: accessing unknown tag 0x640000 DB 0.0 fatal 041052: accessing unknown tag 0x640000 DB 0.0 fatal 041052: accessing unknown tag 0x640000 DB 0.0 fatal 041052: accessing unknown tag 0x640000 // Maya exited with status 1 Sort of the same thing happens with the other layers DB 0.0 fatal 041061: invalid tag value 0xc0ad5343 requested DB 0.0 fatal 041061: invalid tag value 0xc0ad5343 requested DB 0.0 fatal 041061: invalid tag value 0xc0ad5343 requested DB 0.0 fatal 041061: invalid tag value 0xc0ad5343 requested // Maya exited with status 1 It only happens when it has actually completed rendering the layer in question - and the renders appear to be fine. As an extra oddness it appears to render a single frame fine - it does switch between the layers in that case - I have to recheck that though to be sure :) The scene size is around 38-39MB. I tried running an optimize scene size but that screwed up my render layers (removed the material overrides). The same thing happened some days ago, but I didn't get the same error messages in the renderlog - it just said // Maya exited with status 1 Anyone got an idea why this is happening? Any ideas would be very much appreciated :) 2012-05-07T13:12:12+02:00