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og_reborn
12-16-2003, 09:50 PM
Howdy,

I am slowly learning maya, and I'm trying to create a good skin texture with a light coming through it...

I'm using the Tranvol SSS Shader for mental ray in order to get the light to work, but I can't seem to get a bump map to work at all. I have just started fiddling around with mental ray and I'm haveing a bit of trouble even figuring out how to set up a material well in mental ray.

I've tried using the bump function in the Tranvol shader, I've tried creating different kinds of Mental Ray bump map shaders and hooking them up to different parts of the network and I can't get it to work. Any help on how to get it to work (and maybe some suggestions on setting up Mental Ray materials in general) would be immensly appreciated.

Thanks so much for your time, I've also linked the project file so you can see the mess.:D

---> http://adamator.com/other/mba1.mb
Jackdeth
12-16-2003, 10:08 PM
Use the lighengine SSS shader.... Much beter
lazzhar
12-16-2003, 10:14 PM
but lightengine is not free ,or is it?
galactor
12-16-2003, 10:18 PM
LightEngine for Maya is not free, but the subScatter plugin for Maya is.

:: Galactor ::
og_reborn
12-16-2003, 10:52 PM
um....
any idea where I could get that plugin, then? tried searching with little success.

For the time being, though, is there any way to make it work with the shader I'm using?

thanks again
Tierackk
12-16-2003, 11:58 PM
Its here

Lightengine3d SSS (http://www.lightengine3d.com/index2.html)


check out this thread for more on that

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102241
og_reborn
12-18-2003, 07:53 PM
AWESOME.

That lightengine thing looks like it is gonna be perfect. I downloaded that example scene file from pixero and it worked superbly.

Once again you guys have really helped me out. I really appreciate it.

:beer:
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