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Levitateme

04-24-2004, 02:48 AM

About a year ago i swore i did this. isnt there a way to set up maya to render the reflections of my object to a seperate file? i want to composite my reflections of my lights on my object...anyone nkow how to do this?

Randolph

04-24-2004, 09:35 AM

As long as there's no built-in reflection pass in Maya (Why not :banghead:?!?), you have to
use a the useBackground material and create a RGB image with a white mask in the mask channel for your reflections.

Levitateme

04-24-2004, 10:30 AM

thanks randolph, i stubled onto that about 20 min after i posted. pure luck...thanks again.

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