Pikadrew
02-03-2009, 09:57 PM
Hi all. Having a very odd problem so thought I'd come to the masters for help.
I'm using Maya 2008 and particles to make some rain for my senior project at school. The rain is on it's own render layer and is cached. It renders out fine on any shot that does not have any camera movement. However, one of my scenes has a camera move and on this shot, the rain particles don't animate at all. It sorta gives a bullet-timey like effect. Sorta cool, just not at all what I'm going for.
I've checked everything and nothing is different between one shot and the next, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my camera move. Even stranger, the playback in Maya shows the rain animating properly. It's just when I try and batch render the scene out that the rain stays stationary. I've uploaded some half-res videos so you guys can see what I'm talking about.
proper motion:
http://vimeo.com/3073754 (http://vimeo.com/3073754)
no motion:
http://vimeo.com/3073232
Kindly ignore the random spotlight in the no motion video. I was testing to see if maybe it had something to do with my layer setup (it doesn't). Is there just some silly render setting I'm missing or is there something I'm doing incorrectly? Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need the scene file, let me know.
I'm using Maya 2008 and particles to make some rain for my senior project at school. The rain is on it's own render layer and is cached. It renders out fine on any shot that does not have any camera movement. However, one of my scenes has a camera move and on this shot, the rain particles don't animate at all. It sorta gives a bullet-timey like effect. Sorta cool, just not at all what I'm going for.
I've checked everything and nothing is different between one shot and the next, so I'm guessing it has something to do with my camera move. Even stranger, the playback in Maya shows the rain animating properly. It's just when I try and batch render the scene out that the rain stays stationary. I've uploaded some half-res videos so you guys can see what I'm talking about.
proper motion:
http://vimeo.com/3073754 (http://vimeo.com/3073754)
no motion:
http://vimeo.com/3073232
Kindly ignore the random spotlight in the no motion video. I was testing to see if maybe it had something to do with my layer setup (it doesn't). Is there just some silly render setting I'm missing or is there something I'm doing incorrectly? Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need the scene file, let me know.