I need the best render plugin for this...

[Brent Turbo]

Then use both! If you're not already into it, then you need to get used to the idea of rendering in multiple renderers/apps, and the compositing in post. It's the fastest and moxt flexible way to work. Render some things in Maya's default renderer (shader glow, paint effects, etc...) and then render passes in Mental Ray for only the things that need it (displacement, global illumination, etc..) and then composite in Shake, or whatever you like to comp in.

[Shinova]

How do you choose what things to render and what things to not render? Is there a tutorial on that?

[eYadNesS]

Brent Turbo: why I don't think of this! good idea :thumbsup:
But can Maya it self to make multiple renderers? or I need scripts/plugins for this?

Thanks very much


Shinova: from any object attribute you can choose this...

[greek_fire]

shinova - just assign your objects different visibility layers. turn off the visibility for whatever you don't want rendered in the pass, then batch render.

[eYadNesS]

Ya, making layers in the best way...

[Shinova]

Can you make layers for individual faces?

[greek_fire]

no, you would have to first extract the faces in question in order to make them seperate objects. you can, of course, assign different shaders to different faces.
so if you didn't want a face to render in a pass, just assign a completely transparent lambert. then replace w/ its original shader for the pass you want it rendered, and assign trasnparent (invisible) shader to other faces you don't.
that method might cause problems if you were using shadows though.

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