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aeterna789
03-30-2008, 06:09 AM
Hi Guys, Im pretty new here in the forums and this is my first time to post here after a long time just reading the tutorials. I have learned a lot. Anyway about my question.

I have done a short animation on Alias Maya 2008, its a City scene at least 350 frames long, I used mental ray on the skyscrapers to get the reflections on the glass and on metalic surfaces. I am using a coule pof area lighting to brighten up the dark shadows, but my primary lighting comes from Mental Ray's Physical Sun & Sky feature. I have a few troubles when I started rendering it in TGA.

1. Do I use Batch Render to render my animation then upload it to my Video Editing Software?

2. Rendering of the Physical Sun & Sky works fine on perspective view, but the sky disapears when I render it in Camera view. How do I get it to show up?

Advance Thanks guys.
Keiphus
04-03-2008, 06:57 AM
This would probably get more responses in the Maya section... there is a dedicated rendering forum there.

Just a thought, usually the Physical Sun/Sky is associated with some sort of a camera/lens shader. I'm mostly familiar with XSI and have a limited knowledge of Maya, but check to make sure your new camera has the correct shading network setup?

To answer your first question, yes. Make sure you setup your sequence in the Render Settings to output sequential stills. Then just import that image sequence into After Effects, Final Cut, etc...

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, seriously though - check out the Maya Rendering sub-forum.
aeterna789
04-04-2008, 09:30 AM
Ah ok, I've got the physical sun and sky thing done, it was all simple once you get it. The problem was that the Physcal Sun and Sky, and Exposure was not attached to the camera via hypershading. On my second question, I rendered my video fine after batch rendering them all to .tga files. Thanks for the reply.
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