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sumeetkaur

11-10-2009, 07:18 PM

Hi, Following is the render of a Maya scene in MentalRay.
There is a Point Light in the scene which is my base light for the scene casting raytrace shadows.
what I did is I switched off the 'illuminate by default' attribute of this point light in its attribute editor window
and then I linked this light to every object in the scene(including the door in the scene) apart from the bulb on the wall.(by Rendering-Lighting/Shading-Make lights link)

But after following this step when I take out the render in mentalray , my door appears to have lost its texture and appears black.

Even if I take out my render with Maya scanline then also the same problem persists.

I checked my object's(door)Face Normals.They are perfect.

Hope somebody has a solution to my problem.
Thanks in advance:)

pankajkaintura43

11-12-2009, 04:57 AM

Well Sumeet...........I think u may have unlinked the door from the point light...........so plz chck it again................if its linked..................then chck ur texture of the door....................r u able to see the door texture on ur viewport.............may be ur source texture is misplaced from where u imported.that texture..... so try to map it again...................I hope it will help u ................cheers

sumeetkaur

11-13-2009, 02:10 PM

Thanks Pankaj. I had not laid the UVs for my door and instead selected individual faces and had assigned different materials and textures to them. And 'Light Linking' didnt accept this sort of texuring. My problem is solved. The way I had texured my door was wrong.I had to lay its UVs.

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