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rock

05-22-2003, 08:10 AM

Paint effects in Maya 5 native renderer is fast. However, it will not render these paint effects in Mental Ray unless those effects are converted to polygons.

The result then is a painfully slow render and thus, unusable despite Alias Wavefront's promise that we now can use mental ray with paint effects. Is this the only way to render paint effects in mental ray or is there a better way?

Thanks,
Rock

alexx

05-22-2003, 08:27 AM

i guess the best way (where possible) is to really render paint fx in maya and the comp them in the mental ray renderings later..

for heavier paint fx scenes poly rendering will be even able to kill any renderer by pure poly load..

cheers

alexx

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