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blazelet
11-02-2009, 12:33 PM
Hey all!

So I'm working on a project - it's almost working but I have one last stubborn problem. The notorious flicker. I am integrating Vue 7 xstream with Maya 2009, rendering in Mental Ray. The denser areas of vegetation (the grass especially) seem to have lots of noise in them as the camera moves. I see that there are flicker reduction settings in Vue, but I dont have any of those settings available in the Vue plugin for Maya ...

Alternatives I have tried so far are texture filtering - which worked. But texture filtering at 8% caused a 6 hour per frame render which wouldn't work. I tried rendering double the resolution and then scaling back down in post as a few had suggested in other posts but that doesn't seem to make a difference, either. Has anyone else tried anything that has worked?

Thanks much,

Ryan
bruno021
11-04-2009, 08:49 PM
8% leading to 6hrs a frame? weird....If there is any bump on the grass material, delete it, it will reduce noise, but I don't think you can get rid of all the flicker without texture filtering...
blazelet
11-04-2009, 09:28 PM
It is very weird. That's the only thing I change and a 2% filtering to an 8% filtering will send render times from 1h to 8h. I don't get it.

How can you adjust the textures applied to plants in an ecosystem? When I go into my material and select the layer with the ecosystem it allows me to adjust the plant scale and density but not the materials ...

Thanks,

Ryan
bruno021
11-05-2009, 07:20 AM
You need to open the scene in standalone, then in the material tab of the world browser, you can adjust each material.
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