CGTalk - No photons with MIA

MAV4d

09-02-2007, 07:25 PM

Im using the MIA material very heavily in my scene, and after getting the basic geometry set up i went to shade everything and all of my photon bounces have disapeared. i have the MIA plugged into the photon shader and the shadow shader.

this has never happend before, i dont know why it decided to not work now! lol

-MAV

Kako

09-02-2007, 10:27 PM

Is there any object blocking the camera so that you had to turn double sided off for this object? This is a possible problem.
And did you check the Rebuild Photon Map option?

MAV4d

09-03-2007, 12:16 AM

nope no double sided objects, its just basically a light out side of window... MR calculates the photons but when the render pops up its the same as a render with no photon emittion.

yes the rebiuld photon map was checked

MAV4d

09-03-2007, 12:21 AM

i dont know if this helps but just recently i had to reset my maya preferences. maybe somthing got changed when i did that

MAV4d

09-04-2007, 04:51 AM

anyone? i really need help on this, its haulted all of my projects

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