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orko60

11-16-2006, 05:00 AM

Hey everyone. I have a question. I have a scene that I am rendering in mental ray through the command line. Sometimes I stop it (because it basically takes over my computer), and when I restart at the frame where it stopped, the lighting is slightly different. I am using "default lighting" and final gather as lighting. Any ideas why this is happening? Is it the final gather restarting? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

-Zack

acidream

11-19-2006, 10:39 PM

We have this problem when we use "default lighting" and render on our farm. Each packet has slightly different lighting. Maya always positions the default light a certain direction at the start of the render. The solution is to not use default lighting. Just create a single directional light, and it will be pretty much the same.

orko60

11-19-2006, 10:50 PM

Thanks for the reply! I will try that!

-Zack

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