mental ray (Maya) -- geometry is see-through?

#1

Hey guys,

I’m trying to render an animation with mental ray, but the character’s eyes are semi-transparent around the edges.

Basically the model is really simple, as I’m a rookie, and the eyes sort of go “into” the head as they were 2 separate meshes that I combined.

This looks fine in Maya and when I render using Maya Hardware, but with mental ray the colliding bits go semi-transparent. How can I fix this? :slight_smile:

(Note: the screenshot is in ‘smoothing’ mode – the actual geometry isn’t that weirdly curved everywhere. Also, I can’t go back and change the geometry because I just finally finished animating, etc. and wanted to render it. >_<)

If mental ray can’t be fixed (but there must be a way? it’s so advanced), maybe there’s an alternative? But Maya Hardware & Software make it look like crap and even shows the NURBS curves and whatnot.

#2

is that not just the reflection from the surrounding green geo?
beacuse if you look at the bottom you can also see some pink reflected there too…

#3

Good God, I’m a moron. Thank you so much! I didn’t think it was reflective as it’s not smooth around the edges. It looks like see-through geometry. >_<

#4

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