JasonA
08-10-2003, 08:04 PM
Hi folks,
Couple questions about rendering and MR:
I'm trying to render a model that I have but when I use Mental Ray to do it, I get some strange errors which I'm not sure how to track down. I get three "// Warning: (Mayatomr.Shader) : file __: no texture file referenced //" (where the file numbers are different) and I also get six "// Error: (Mayatomr.Shader) : no shader assigned in material //" type errors. Yet I'm at a loss on how to fix them. this model has like 60+ textures on it. How do I track down file135 (for example)? And what do I do about the no shader assigned errors?
Second question: Anti-aliasing issues: this has been an ongoing problem for me regardless of the render, but I'm going to ask to see if someone can help me get my settings dialed in better. Basically when I use production settings on either Maya renderer or MR, I always have to trade off good edge antialiasing with sharp images, but I can't seem to find both. When I set the settings high, edges look good but all my textures (and the image for that matter) get blurry beyond acceptablility. set them too low and the ssharpness looks awesome, but my model edge has severe jaggies on every edge of the model. And it seems that where one extreme ends , the other doesn't begin. in other words, I can't seem to maintain the quality of one aspect before the other aspect starts improving. I've been trying to get this figured out for literally months and still I can't figure out hot to set the render globals to get a decent rendering :( Admittidly, I'm used to using to MAX's renderer which never left me running in circles tothis degree
Can someone offer some constructive guidance on these problems?
Couple questions about rendering and MR:
I'm trying to render a model that I have but when I use Mental Ray to do it, I get some strange errors which I'm not sure how to track down. I get three "// Warning: (Mayatomr.Shader) : file __: no texture file referenced //" (where the file numbers are different) and I also get six "// Error: (Mayatomr.Shader) : no shader assigned in material //" type errors. Yet I'm at a loss on how to fix them. this model has like 60+ textures on it. How do I track down file135 (for example)? And what do I do about the no shader assigned errors?
Second question: Anti-aliasing issues: this has been an ongoing problem for me regardless of the render, but I'm going to ask to see if someone can help me get my settings dialed in better. Basically when I use production settings on either Maya renderer or MR, I always have to trade off good edge antialiasing with sharp images, but I can't seem to find both. When I set the settings high, edges look good but all my textures (and the image for that matter) get blurry beyond acceptablility. set them too low and the ssharpness looks awesome, but my model edge has severe jaggies on every edge of the model. And it seems that where one extreme ends , the other doesn't begin. in other words, I can't seem to maintain the quality of one aspect before the other aspect starts improving. I've been trying to get this figured out for literally months and still I can't figure out hot to set the render globals to get a decent rendering :( Admittidly, I'm used to using to MAX's renderer which never left me running in circles tothis degree
Can someone offer some constructive guidance on these problems?