Studio Lighting in Autodesk Maya 2009 - Part 2

[Evans3275]

Ahh just spotted your download link. Nice - Thank you!

[Evans3275]

720 video please

[chriskandora]

Question: Why does my model disappear when I apply my chrome mental ray material x shader?

[chriskandora]

I like your voice. It reminds me of Brad Pitt's voice. :)

[tillasmax]

Great video keep up the good work.

[LoganSchubert]

below is a much simpler way to get studio lighting... and you don't have an ugly shaded curve in the background.

Just select camera attributes and change environment color to white. Go to Hypershade and apply "Use Background Shader" to the Floor under your object. Now your render will be completely white except main object and shadows.

[HungryPolice]

@LoganSchubert Instead of white, is there a way to make it grey like the backround in this video?

[hardyk1]

Nice tutorial, helps alot!!

[kingox1]

Utorrent, Bad boy.

[kesoboi]

can u post how to do a dynamic flickering light effect in maya? im having a hard time doing it. pls pls pls

[Ikimono]

@kesoboi

Key the light intensity.

[Videshi2001]

I expect you guys have had your questions answered by now, but I'd expect the issue is either that you haven't switched to mental ray in render options (by "render using"), or (more likely) that you haven't added a light. There are no default lights in mental ray.

PS: Use raytrace in MR. No DM shadows.

[snoozlefroose]

So,you said in one part that the object was dark because the enviroment around it was dark,that means in this software objects reflect light naturally depending on their texture/surface just like in the real world? that's awesome (if my question made any sence lol)

[fabiokrieger]

When I put the Mia_material_x the objetct disapear on the rendering. But it continues there, only disapear on the rendering. Can u help?

[hoze187]

make sure you're rendering in mental ray and not maya soft

[KevinUncut]

Here's a problem I'm having. Every time I assign the Mia_material_ x to the object and then apply the chrome preset it disappears when I go to render it. I've pretty much followed everything you've done almost perfectly but when I apply the chrome to it, the object disappears from the render. Help?

[duderor]

Hi Forgott3n. can you help me. im trying to get Mental ray to work in maya 2008 version. but i have no luck. after install mental ray works. into maya installation folder i then look for the mental ray plug-in in Maya's Plug-in manager and activate it. but when i try to create a chrome object. it and render it in with mental ray. it does not show with the chrome effect's. what shall i do?