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TuLe
07-21-2002, 10:01 PM
Hey all...

I`m aventuring on the "Maya Planet" now and i think it deserves all the buzz it`s been receiveing all these years on the marked!

The softer is really powerfull and have a lot of incredible functions and tools like paint effects and poly sculpt tool...(these one kicks major ass!)

But i`m a little disapointed with it`s render capabilites.
See i made a scene where a boat travels through a lake usind path follow for the animation and some dynamics animating a nurbs plane for the water... also the boat and the mountains are nurbs as well. The animation has a fixed camera on the boat for a realistic ride experience...!

The role animation has 360 frames (15secs) and my output format would be 720x480 avi format. Also i used some raytraced shaders for the water...

Okay the bad part is that the batch render took a eternety to finish on a low setting and using the best settings i had to stop it cause i didn`t finished rendering at all (i leted it go through the night away!)

I would apreciate some feedback from veterans on maya regarding the render area of the program!
My machine is a AMD athlon 1.1GHZ 768mb ASUSTi GForce2 64mb runing on WindowsXP Pro...!

Puff...puff that's it!!!

Thankx
sigma
07-21-2002, 10:27 PM
Try the 'Render Diagnostics' in the Render menu.
And Raytracing tends to slow things down allot.
wedge
07-22-2002, 12:01 AM
get another processor ;)

<--- Dual 1GHz PIII, and loving it!
TuLe
07-22-2002, 02:54 AM
get another processor

<--- Dual 1GHz PIII, and loving it

Yeah i'm thinking about that buddy...
But i think i'll stick with AMD XP 2000+Ghz

I'm just curious if i can have a dual processor MOBO for that!
any thoughts?
-wT-
07-22-2002, 02:04 PM
Sure there are dual mobos for AMD XP's, though the XP processors aren't qualified as dual processors, but you could get them to work, without spending your money on the higher priced Athlon MP's.
But you should check some hardware sites and see what they recommend as a dual motherboards. Try www.anandtech.com or www.tomshardware.com
OrestesMantra
07-22-2002, 02:32 PM
I see your following the Maya 4 Fundamentals tutorial:beer:

GOod times, that book will really help you get started:thumbsup:
TuLe
07-22-2002, 05:45 PM
I see your following the Maya 4 Fundamentals tutorial

That's right my friend, it's a awesome book indeed...

The videos that comes with it on the cdrom are really helpfull, lots of tips too, but i wonder it they rendered the boat project on that crappy machine they had on the videos...

hehehehehee

Here it's taking an eternety...!:scream:
Machismo
07-22-2002, 08:21 PM
hehe i thought the same thing as Orestes :p

just finished that book and moved on to mastering maya 3 - pretty terrible experience. i couldnt get the nurbs head modelling tutorial to work straight it was like just 2 pages and the rest was left to you. the polygon tutorials arent any better. i hope new riders releases Inside Maya 4 or some such i'd be first in line to get it :bounce: :scream:

-edit any one else have the same experience or is it just me :)
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