Displacement Maps In Maya Software?

[Karlfucious]

As far as the reason why they tell you to render in Mental ray. Ive found that rendering displacements in Mental Ray is acually a lot faster than in Maya software on my machine. Plus I get better results using the approximation editor. The only thing that you may need to make shure you do if you do use Mental Ray is since you are using sub-ds you need a really clean mesh meaning 100% quads or mental ray wont render it. That can be a bummer some times because i like to do almost everything poly to sub-d. As far as the error message it probably has something to do with how the maya renderer tessilates the geometry before it renders. before it renders it reads everything as tris. The error message probably has something to do with the displacement, don't ask me why though lol. I personally dont like even using maya's renderer at all when it comes to doing displacements because it always gives me problems and half of the time it crashes anyway. So I would say just use Mental Ray. Its more predictible and faster unless you are using any of its tricks like fg or gi but since you are using maya's renderer anyways you probably dont need them.

Good luck,
Karl

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