Proxies and Render Passes

[Hamburger]

Really? No one has encountered this?

As you can see by the attachment, the depthmap is working, however the proxy trees appear black. This happens with all passes.

[Agent X]

I had the same problem, but i didn't have the time to problem solve, so i don't have an answer for you.

Also, I used the old method of using the mental ray node to convert the object. Have you tried using the "Export Proxy Container" method? that is the only advice i can offer.

[Hamburger]

Thanks, it's a shame. I mean they're massive new features and sound great on paper, but once again it looks like we'll have to wait for SP1. :sad:

[Agent X]

I am not sure if this is your experience, but i found that if you didn't use anything like FG or AO, the renders were really quick, but the moment you add them, it really chugs.

I did some tests using hi res mesh, and it preformed really well, but when i used it for plants in an arch vis render, it was quite slow.

Has this been your experience?

[Hamburger]

Yes, it slows to a crawl when using a lot of plants and foliage, but the important thing is that when using Proxies, Maya won't run out of memory and it's hell of a lot more efficient than using instances.

AO in the render passes really ads to the rendering time, so I still prefer to use the old Maya 2008 method of overriding material assignments and rendering separate when I need. But for the other simple passes I like the newer method, it's just a shame it won't work with Proxies.

[Hamburger]

Edit: Nevermind, thought I found the fix but it doesn't look like it, even a simple Lambert shader doesn't fix things. Mental Ray can be extremely frustrating! :wip:

[Ash-Man]

it depend on what you tryioing to do > this might help

in the export part of teh proxy
disable mateial and material assignment

now you need to add a new shader to these proxy in your new scene
this will work

[Hamburger]

This thread can now be banished to the CGTalk archives.

Thanks Ash-Man, but it turns out you have to export the mesh from your scene, I was doing the export scene from my prop library before. If anyone has the same problem in the future just export the mesh from the current scene.

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