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ManuelM
01-17-2003, 11:29 PM
i wonder, if mental ray maya can interpret mayas switch utilities. i`m currently trying to render a scene, which was originally built for mayas default renderer in mr. this scene includes a lot of triple switches in rder to keep the number of shaders small. i`m getting the following error message:

mental ray for Maya 1.5 Public Beta
mental ray: version 3.1.2.13, 4 Sep 2002
mental ray: compiled on: Windows NT 4.0, x86
API 0.0 warn 302018: type conflict: "color" is type color, "maya_tripleswitch" returns type vector
API 0.0 warn 302018: type conflict: "inTriple" is type vector, "maya_file" returns type color
... and so on ...

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what i found out, is that i git this problem only, when i?m trying to render a go/fg image. when rendering an image with preview settings, mr interprets the shaders correctly. i will attach an immagem, of what i get, when trying to render with gi/fg settings

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cu manuelhttp://www.manuelmacha.de/temp/mr_prob.jpg

i`m currently using mr 1.5 public beta. is it fixed in the final version? do i have to rebuild all shaders which use a switch utility?
thanks for your help in advance...

matty429
01-18-2003, 08:22 PM
Turn the energy..waaaayy down ...for a directional light...like 100

Wigaru Wiyamoto
01-19-2003, 12:25 AM
You probably shouldn't use a directional light with GI anyways.

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