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byranx

10-12-2006, 10:27 PM

Hi. I'm new to Mental Ray...as in...just beginning to mess with its own materials and seeing how they compare to the typical Maya materials that I've used before. The problem is, I can't figure out or find out the Mental Ray equivalent of a file texture. Just when I thought I had set up the connection between my image file in the sourceimages and one of MR's texture nodes...nothing happens. I did some searching around and there was an old thread where the same issue was brought up but with no answers. I've read some things about...converting the image file to a .map? or something of the sorts.

I'm sorry if I sound really confused but I'm just used to Maya's file texture node and Mental Ray's shaders scare me a little bit...least for now. Hehe.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...as I'm working on my second film for school and need to find out these things fairly soon :)

-Brian

leigh

10-12-2006, 11:33 PM

I'm not sure I understand the problem. I use MR all the time and set up my shaders, as per normal, in the Hypershade, using the regular Maya file node. Never had any problems :shrug:

byranx

10-13-2006, 12:29 AM

Huh....looks like it worked hehe. Sorry...for some reason I thought you couldn't mix and match any of the MR shading nodes with Maya's. Thanks for your help

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