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westiemad

10-14-2004, 03:31 PM

I have UV mapped my scene, which consists of 3 builds and 2 spheres (the spheres are used for sky colour and FG, and there is GI in the scene. While using a standard checker map on every object in the scene, it renders nicely, as soon as I apply a file texture (from photoshop) and click render, it just loads the last render into the scene and stops. I don't tend to use mental ray, I think I'm remembering why.

Any ideas?

elektronaut

10-14-2004, 03:54 PM

can maya display the apllied texture in the viewport ? which file format did u use for the texture?

westiemad

10-14-2004, 03:58 PM

the file format *.tiff and it is 2k square (layers were turned off on the save as out of photoshop).

Press 6 does display the texture in the viewport.

:)

BillSpradlin

10-14-2004, 04:33 PM

Make sure you don't save it with LZW compression, mental ray has problems with .tiffs sometimes. Try saving it out as an iff or something else.

westiemad

10-14-2004, 04:42 PM

many thanks Bill :) that worked.

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