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Spyder

11-13-2002, 02:23 PM

i was woundering if anybody knew a way to make maya joints renderable. It doesnt matter if i have to to do it in the hadware render or though the global renderer. i know i can playbast them but i would like to have a aplha channel with them.

john_homer

11-13-2002, 07:33 PM

I'm pretty sure maya can't render its joints.

you could set your BG color black, and joint color to white an do a playblast.. that would give you an alpha.

Or you could make a joint shape, by extruding curves, then making a MEL script that runs through the joints putting a copy of your geometry joint in the right place/size orient.

.j

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