Rendering

Folders

images

scripts

wwhdata

File

2D and 3D texture positioning

A typical direct light/shadow workflow

A typical rendering workflow

About 2D textures

About 3D textures

About backgrounds

About Color Utilities

About displacement material

About environment textures

About General Utilities

About hardware shaders

About shading networks

About surface materials

About surface relief

About Switch Utilities

About the mental ray for Maya renderer

About volumetric materials

About_rendering_and_renderers.html

About_shading_and_texturing_surfaces.html

About_the_mental_ray_renderer.html

Absorption, reflection, and refraction of light

Adding a bump map to the mia_material shader

Adding sun and sky to your scene

Adding toon lines and shading to a scene

Adjust a camera’s attributes

Adjust a light source’s attributes

Adjust anti-aliasing

Adjust anti-aliasing in mental ray for Maya

Adjust bake set attributes

Adjust color values

Adjust conversion options

Adjust depth of field

Adjust displacement sampling rates

Adjust NURBS tessellation settings

Adjust output image filtering

Adjust per-object anti-aliasing parameters

Adjust polygonal tessellation

Adjust scene anti-aliasing parameters (Maya software)

Adjust subdivision surface tessellation

Adjust the size of the glow object

Adjust_a_spot_lights_light_circle.html

Adjust_decay.html

Adjust_node_attributes.html

Adobe Photoshop texture networks

Advanced information

Advanced_mental_ray_for_Maya_shading.html

Advanced_mental_ray_for_Maya_shadingo.html

Aim a camera

Ambient Light Attributes

Ambient occlusion concepts

Angle of view (focal length)

Animate a node attribute

Animation playback control keys

Anisotropic

Anti-aliasing and flicker

Appendices.html

Appendicesbrb.html

Appendix A: Extra mental ray render settings

Appendix A: mental ray user data nodes

Appendix B: Creating camera output passes with mental ray for Maya

Appendix B: Phenomenizer

Apply barn doors (shutters) to a beam of light

Apply_and_adjust_basic_direct_lighting.html

Approximation

Approximation nodes

Approximation styles

Approximation_Editor.html

Approximation_in_mental_ray_for_Maya.html

Area Light Attributes

Array Mapper

Artifacts

ASHLI shaders

Assemble nodes into logical groupings using container nodes in the Hypershade

Assign a shading group from the Shader Library

Assign an approximation node

Assign custom text to an object or shader

Assign different component shading for each render layer

Assign existing materials to surfaces

Assign objects to existing bake sets

Assign shaders to polygon faces

Assign text to entities

Atmosphere.html

Atmospheric_effects_in_mental_ray_for_Maya.html

Backgrounds.html

Bake lightmaps from the command line

Bake sets

Bake_set_nodes.html

Baking illumination and color

Baking to textures and vertices

Baking with final gather

Baking_textures_and_Prelighting.html

Baking_textures_and_prelighting_in_mental_ray_for_Maya.html

Baking_textures_in_mental_ray_for_Maya.html

Basic color and texture backgrounds

Basics_of_Lighting.html

Basics_of_mental_ray_for_Maya_shading.html

Basics_of_mental_ray_for_Maya_shadingn.html

Batch and command-line render with layers

Batch render a still or animation

Batch renders from within Maya (UI)

Blend Colors

Blinn

blur2d

Bookmarks > Bookmark Editor

Bookmarks > Create Bookmark

Brownian

Build phenomena

Build_shading_networks.html

Bulge

Bump 2d

Bump 3d

Bump maps

Cache texture tiles using BOT (block ordered texture)

Catch shadows for an alpha channel

Caustics

CgFX Shader

CgFX shaders

Change bounding box scale

Change default connection line colors

Change existing render node attribute connections

Change the set of slaves used for mental ray for Maya renders

Change the visual effect of fog, smoke, or dust

Checker

Choose a rendering method

Clamp

Clear Coat

Clipping planes

Cloth

Cloud

Color bleed

Color, Depth, and Mask (alpha) channels

Color_Utilities.html

Combine global illumination with final gather

Command line render

Command line renderer

Command line rendering

Command_line_renderer.html

Common Environment texture attributes

Common flags for the command line renderer

Common surface material attributes

Common surface material Specular Shading attributes

Common Volumetric material attributes

Compositing Interoperability Plug-in for Toxik

Compositing_Interoperability_Plugin.html

Condition

Configuration files

Connect a displacement map

Connect a texture as a displacement map

Connect default output to a specific input attribute

Connect render nodes by dragging existing connection lines

Connect render nodes using the Connection Editor

Connect render nodes using their default connections

Connect_nodes.html

Connection Editor

Contrast

Control a spot light’s circle boundary

Control animation playback in FCheck

Control Fine approximation triangles

Control highlights of an area light

Control soft lighting distribution

Control visibility/reflection per layer

Control which objects cast shadows

Control_area_lights.html

Control_Fine_approximation_triangles.html

Convert a displacement to polygons

Convert a PSD node to a file texture

Convert a texture or shading network to a File Texture

Convert toon lines to polygons

Crater

Create > Cameras > Camera

Create > Cameras > Camera and Aim

Create > Cameras > Camera, Aim, and Up

Create > Create Render Node

Create > Lights > Ambient Light

Create > Lights > Area Light

Create > Lights > Directional Light

Create > Lights > Point Light

Create > Lights > Spot Light

Create > Lights > Volume Light

Create > Volume primitives

Create a 3D image file background

Create a bake set

Create a Bake Set tab in Hypershade

Create a basic color background

Create a camera

Create a light optical effect

Create a material

Create a Maya light source

Create a mental ray area light

Create a node

Create a PSD file with layer sets from within Maya

Create a static image file background

Create a texture background

Create an ambient occlusion map with the Transfer Map tool

Create an animated image file background

Create an approximation node

Create and load a plug-in multipixel filter

Create and view depth files

Create bar

Create blurry reflections using mental ray for Maya

Create custom spot light intensity or color decay

Create double-sided shaded surfaces

Create environments that glow

Create Hypershade tabs

Create illuminated fog

Create lightmaps by baking textures and vertices

Create menu

Create texture maps with the Transfer Map tool

Create Texture Reference Object

Create true reflections

Create, edit and delete user framebuffers

Create, edit, assign approximation nodes

Create, edit, or position an image plane

Create.html

Create_a_mental_ray_area_light_source.html

Create_and_assign_materials_to_surfaces.html

Create_and_use_a_camera.html

Create_and_use_custom_mental_ray_shaders.html

Create_approximation_nodes.html

Create_glows_halos_or_lens_flares.html

Create_nodes.html

Createaq.html

Createbq.html

Creating and using mirrored normal maps on a character or object

Custom mental ray text

Custom vertex data

Decrease_file_size_Maya_Vector_renderer.html

Default lighting in Maya

Delete a node and its network

Delete a render node connection

Delete information not relevant to the renderer

Depth compositing with image planes

Depth map and raytraced shadows

Determine a light’s area of illumination

Determine which objects to tessellate

Diagnose_scene_problems.html

Diagnose_scene_problems_.html

Direct_light_sources.html

Directional Light Attributes

Disable the initial load of a file texture image

Displacement maps

Displacement_material.html

Display a high dynamic range image

Display keys

Display NURBS tessellation triangles

Display subdivision surface tessellation triangles

Display_high_dynamic_range_images.html

Distance Between

Double Switch

Double-sided shaded surfaces

Duplicate a node

Duplicate an existing render layer

Dynamic Attributes

Dynamic attributes for mental ray custom shaders

Dynamic Attributes for Rendering

Dynamic_Attributes_for_mental_ray_for_Maya.html

Edit > Collapse Container

Edit > Convert PSD to File Texture

Edit > Convert PSD to Layered Texture

Edit > Convert to File Texture

Edit > Create Container

Edit > Create PSD Network

Edit > Delete (Hypershade)

Edit > Delete All by Type

Edit > Delete Duplicate Shading Networks

Edit > Delete Unused Nodes

Edit > Duplicate (Hypershade)

Edit > Edit PSD Network

Edit > Edit Texture

Edit > Expand Container

Edit > Remove Container

Edit > Render Texture Range

Edit > Revert Selected Swatches

Edit > Select All by Type

Edit > Select Materials from Objects

Edit > Select Objects with Materials

Edit > Test Texture

Edit > Update PSD Networks

Edit an approximation node

Edit PSD Networks

Edit the maya.rayrc file

Enable color, depth, and mask channels for rendered images

Env Sky

Environment_textures.html

Exclude an object from an occlusion render

Export a .mi file and render with mental ray

Export_mi_files_.html

Exporting .mi files

FCheck Control Bar

FCheck File menu

FCheck Help menu (Windows)

FCheck hotkeys

FCheck Mouse controls

FCheck options

FCheck options list

FCheck supported file formats

Fcheck View menu (Windows)

FCheck windows

FCheck.html

FCheckca.html

Feature-based displacement

Feature-based displacement map attributes

Featurebased_displacement_map.html

FieldAssembler

File

File > Export All, Export Selection (mental ray)

File > Export Selected Network

File > Import (Hypershade)

File > Import Selected Image Files

File > Import Selected Scene Files

Final gather and ambient occlusion

Final gather sample workflow

Final_gather_and_HDRI.html

Flag objects to cast and receive photons

Fog, smoke, dust, and silt

Fractal

Frame all objects

Frame numbering and padded numbers

Frame part of a scene

Frame selected objects

Frame_your_scene_.html

Frames vs. Fields

Framing_objects_with_a_camera.html

from100to97

fStop (aperture) and shutter speed/angle

Gamma Correct

General_Utilities.html

Global illumination

Global illumination and caustics

Global illumination and caustics workflow

Global illumination, caustics, and final gather

Global_illumination_and_caustics.html

Glow_nodes.html

Glows, halos, and lens flares

Granite

Graph > Add Selected to Graph

Graph > Clear Graph

Graph > Graph Materials on Selected Objects

Graph > Input and Output Connections

Graph > Input Connections

Graph > Output Connections

Graph > Rearrange Graph

Graph > Remove Selected from Graph

Graph > Show Next Graph

Graph > Show Previous Graph

Grid

Hardware Render Buffer global settings

Hardware Render Buffer menus

Hardware Render Buffer window

Hardware, software, and vector rendering

Hardware_Render_Buffer.html

Hardware_shaders.html

Height Field

Hide and show toon lines

Hide shape and transform nodes in Hypershade

Hide, resize or customize the Create bar

High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI)

Hsv to Rgb

Hypershade main toolbar

Hypershade menus

Hypershade tab toolbar

Hypershade top tabs

Hypershade window

Hypershade.html

Hypershade_toolbars.html

Image adjustment keys

Image based lighting node attributes

Image file backgrounds

Image plane

Image_Planes.html

Image_quality_and_render_speed.html

Image-based lighting (sky-like illumination)

imconvert (Image Magick)

imgcvt

Import and export shading networks

Improve_rendered_image_quality.html

Increase camera views render speed

Increase overall rendering speed

Increase overall rendering speed in mental ray for Maya

Increase shadow rendering speed

Increase shadow rendering speed in mental ray for Maya

Increase surface rendering speed

Increase surface rendering speed in mental ray for Maya

Increase_render_speed.html

Increase_render_speedbn.html

Indirect (global) vs. direct illumination

Interactive Photorealistic Rendering (IPR)

Interactive Photorealistic Rendering (IPR) for mental ray for Maya

Interactively place a spot, area or directional light

Interactively set decay regions

interlace

Introduction to rendering

Introduction to Tessellation and Approximation

Irradiance as the source of light

Lambert

Layers_and_passes.html

Leather

Light and shadow in the real world

Light_specific_surfaces.html

Lighting

Lighting > Shadows

Lighting > Specify Selected Lights

Lighting > Two Sided Lighting

Lighting > Use All Lights

Lighting > Use Default Lighting

Lighting > Use No Lights

Lighting > Use Previously Specified Lights

Lighting > Use Selected Lights

Lighting/shading > Assign Existing Bake Set

Lighting/shading > Assign Existing Material

Lighting/shading > Assign New Bake Set

Lighting/shading > Assign New Material

Lighting/shading > Batch Bake (mental ray)

Lighting/shading > Break Light Links

Lighting/shading > Break Shadow Links

Lighting/shading > Light Linking

Lighting/shading > Make Light Links

Lighting/shading > Make Shadow Links

Lighting/shading > Material Attributes

Lighting/shading > Select Lights Illuminated by Object

Lighting/shading > Select Objects Illuminated by Light

Lighting/Shading > Transfer Maps

Lighting_menus.html

Lighting_nodes.html

Lighting_Windows_and_Editors.html

Lightingat.html

Lightingshading.html

Lightingshadingas.html

Limitations of baking to textures

lineModifier node

Link light sources to surfaces

Link light sources to surfaces to control shadow calculations

Link sets of lights and objects

Load shaders

Look at selected objects

Look through another camera

Look_through_select_a_camera.html

Luminance

Make an existing camera renderable

Managing Maya network rendering

Map a 2D or 3D texture

Map_and_position_textures.html

Mapping methods

Mapping_and_positioning_textures.html

mapVizShape node

Marble

Mask and depth channels

Material_nodes__Maya_software.html

Maya camera types

Maya Hardware renderer

Maya render diagnostics

Maya software

Maya Software renderer

Maya Vector renderer

Maya_materials.html

Maya_materials_and_textures.html

Maya_network_rendering.html

Maya_Render_Nodes.html

Maya_tessellation.html

Maya_textures.html

mental ray

mental ray Approximation Editor

mental ray Area Light

mental ray Area Light Attributes (created using area light)

mental ray Area Light Attributes (created using spot light)

mental ray attributes for lights (point, spot, directional, area)

mental ray Custom text editor

mental ray for Maya custom shaders

mental ray for Maya diagnostics

mental ray for Maya displacement

mental ray for Maya error handling and diagnostics

mental ray for Maya geometry types

mental ray for Maya motion blur

mental ray for Maya nodes

mental ray for Maya Output window messages

mental ray for Maya reference links

mental ray for Maya reflections

mental ray for Maya renderer

mental ray for Maya shaders

mental ray for Maya shaders sample workflow

mental ray for Maya Surface relief

mental ray for Maya textures

mental ray for Maya user framebuffers

mental ray mia_material shader attributes

mental ray network rendering: Satellite and standalone

mental ray Shader connections

mental ray shader language extensions

mental ray shadow maps

mental_ray_atmospheric_effects.html

mental_ray_custom_shaders.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_Lighting.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_Lighting_concepts.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_network_rendering.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_Reference_Links.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_reference_linksaa.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_reference_linksbe.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_rendering.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_shadersr.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_shadersz.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_Shading.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_shading_concepts.html

mental_ray_for_Maya_transfer_maps.html

mental_ray_Light_Source.html

mental_ray_Output_window_messages.html

mental_ray_Surface_relief.html

mentalrayUserBuffer node attributes

Merging display layers or render layers when importing files

miDefaultOptions node

Modify > Convert Displacement to Polygons

Modify a mask channel

Modify toon line attributes

Modify.html

Motion blur

Motion_blur_and_depth_of_field.html

Motion_Bluraz.html

Mountain

Move a camera to another location

Move a light source to another location

Move barn doors (shutters) of a spot light

Move the center of interest or origin

Move the Cone Radius of a spot light

Move the Decay regions of a spot light

Move the Penumbra Radius of a spot light

Move the pivot point

Movie

Multiply Divide

Naming render layers

Network render with Maya software

Network render with mental ray for Maya

Network_rendering.html

Network_renderingbc.html

Network_renderingbo.html

Noise

NURBS objects tessellation

NURBS surface, poly, and subD tessellation

Objectspecific_mental_ray_attributes__Attribute_Editor.html

Obtain quads for subdivision surfaces

Ocean

Ocean Shader

Open a file in FCheck

Open a PSD network in Adobe Photoshop from Maya

Open and navigate Hypershade

Open image sequences

Open the Render Settings window

Open_and_customize_Hypershade.html

Optical FX Attributes

Options > Clear Before Graphing

Options > Create Bar

Options > Display (Work Area Only)

Options > Keep Swatches at Current Resolution

Organize render nodes with Hypershade sorting bins

Other_textures.html

Override approximation settings

Overview of building shading networks

Overview of FCheck

Overview of FCheck features

Overview of network rendering

Overview of texture nodes

Paint additional lines in toon scenes

Paint toon line attributes

Perform_command_line_rendering.html

Perform_command_line_renderingbl.html

Perform_final_renders_from_within_Maya.html

pfxToonProfileShader node

pfxToonShape node

Phenomena

Phong

Phong E

Photon maps

Photon tracing

Photon_and_final_gather_nodes.html

Photon_maps_and_photon_tracing.html

Pixel aspect ratio

Place 2d Texture

Placement_nodes_.html

Plan light sources

Plus Minus Average

Point Light Attributes

Position 2D textures and labels

Position 3D textures

Position_features_of_a_light_interactively.html

Pre Render MEL and Post Render MEL scripts

Preview layers

Preview the displacement results

Primary vs. secondary tessellation passes

Procedural textures

Produce raytraced shadows

Projection

Quad Switch

Quality_render_speed_diagnostics.html

Quality_render_speed_diagnosticsbb.html

Ramp

Ramp Shader

Raytracing concepts

Recycling rendered images to save time

Reduce artifacts and flicker

Reduce_render_memory_usage.html

Reducing memory usage

Reflection_and_Environment.html

Relate Maya custom shaders to mental ray for Maya custom shaders

Remap Color

Remap HSV

Remap Value

Remove material overrides from objects in any render layer

Remove or hide a background

Remove shadows

Render > Batch Render

Render > Cancel Batch Render

Render > Export All Layers to Toxik

Render > Export Selected Layers to Toxik

Render > IPR Render Current Frame

Render > Redo Previous IPR Render

Render > Redo Previous Render

Render > Render Current Frame

Render > Render Diagnostics

Render > Render Using > Maya Hardware

Render > Render Using > Maya Software

Render > Render Using > Maya Vector

Render > Render Using > mental ray

Render > Set NURBS Tessellation

Render > Show Batch Render

Render > Test Resolution

Render a region of your scene

Render a separate global illumination pass

Render a single frame

Render all or some objects from a camera

Render color per vertex in mental ray for Maya

Render depth map shadows

Render detail shadow maps in mental ray for Maya

Render finitely distant illumination and reflection

Render from a command line

Render from the command line

Render infinitely distant (sky-like) illumination and reflection

Render layer concepts

Render Layer editor window

Render layer overview

Render Layer render attributes

Render layers example: automotive preview

Render layers to PSD format

Render multiple scenes

Render node attributes

Render node connections

Render node utilities

Render nodes

Render parts of a scene separately

Render passes

Render raytraced shadows

Render selected objects

Render Settings for Lighting

Render Settings window

Render Settings: Common tab

Render Settings: Maya Hardware tab

Render Settings: Maya Software tab

Render Settings: Maya Vector tab

Render Settings: mental ray tab

Render View rendering

Render View toolbar

Render with Caustics

Render with final gather

Render with global illumination

Render with several processors

Render_Layer_attributes.html

Render_Layer_editor.html

Render_multiple_scenes.html

Render_node_utilities.html

Render_output.html

Render_Settings.html

Render_tiles_in_the_Maya_Software_renderer.html

Render_time_smoothing_of_polygon_meshes.html

Render_View.html

Render_with_global_illumination_and_caustics.html

Renderer > <Custom Renderer>

Renderer > Default Quality Rendering

Renderer > High Quality Rendering

Renderer.html

Renderers.html

Renderer-specific flags for the command line renderer

Rendering

Rendering Flags window

Rendering utilities

Rendering_Flags.html

Rendering_menu_set.html

Rendering_menu_setar.html

Rendering_menu_setbs.html

Rendering_menus.html

Rendering_methods.html

Rendering_nodes.html

Rendering_Utilities_Tools.html

Rendering_Utilities_Windows_and_Editors.html

Rendering_Windows_and_Editors.html

Renderingau.html

Resolution

Retune the final gather settings for pre-Maya 6.5 scenes

Reuse depth maps

Reverse

Rgb to Hsv

Rock

Run diagnostics

Run Pre Render MEL or Post Render MEL scripts

Safe display regions for TV production

Sample diagnostic messages

Sampler Info

Save images or sequences

Save sequential camera movements

Scattering

See shading and lights in a scene view

See shadows in the scene view

See the distribution of photons

Select a renderer

Select lights illuminating a specific object

Select objects illuminated by a specific light

Select the current scene view’s camera

Set file name syntax

Set IPR options

Set motion blur

Set motion blur in mental ray for Maya

Set node attributes

Set Paint Effects rendering options

Set per-material vector rendering options

Set Range

Set raytracing quality

Set rendered images output location

Set scene-wide photon tracing overrides

Set the rendered image file format

Set the resolution and pixel aspect ratio

Set up a master machine with mental ray for Maya or mental ray for Maya Satellite

Set up a master machine with mental ray standalone (method 1)

Set up a master machine with mental ray standalone (method 2)

Set up mental ray for Maya raytracing

Set_scene_options.html

Set_scene_optionsbi.html

Setting Fine approximation cache limit

Shading

Shading group node attributes

Shading Map

Shading_group_node.html

Shading_menus.html

Shading_networks.html

Shading_Nodes.html

Shading_Windows_and_Editors.html

Shadow_in_mental_ray.html

Shared 2D texture attributes

Shared 3D texture attributes

Shared surface material sections

Show node connections

Show top and bottom level tabs

Show, hide, or resize a light manipulator

Simulate fog, smoke, or dust

Simulate reflections with Env Ball

Simulate reflections with Env Cube

Simulate reflections with Env Sphere

Simulated reflections

Simulating the sun and sky

Single Switch

Size and position an image file background

Sketch_out_guidelines_lipstick_for_paint_application.html

Slave machine setup

Small_Utilities.html

Smear

Smooth polygon meshes at render time

Snow

Solid Fractal

Some menu items are renderer-specific. For example, IPR menu items appear only for Maya software rendering.

Sorting Bins

Sources of direct light

Specify frame or field rendering

Specify light parameters

Spot Light Attributes

Start FCheck

Stencil

Stop a command line render

Store and reuse Final Gather results

Strategies to decrease vector render file size

Stucco

Studio Clear Coat

Subfolders and names of rendered images

Submit a job to render over the network

Supported save formats

Surf. Luminance

Surface Approximation settings (Attribute Editor)

Surface Shader

Surface shading

Surface texture

Surface, displacement, volumetric materials

Surface_materials.html

Surface_Relief.html

Swatch rendering for any renderer

Swatch rendering in mental ray for Maya

Switch_Utilities.html

Tabs > Create New Tab

Tabs > Current Tab

Tabs > Move Tab Up, Down, Left, Right

Tabs > Remove Tab

Tabs > Rename Tab

Tabs > Revert to Default Tabs

Tabs > Show Bottom Tabs Only

Tabs > Show Top and Bottom Tabs

Tabs > Show Top Tabs Only

Tessellate_NURBS_surfaces.html

Tessellate_polygonal_surfaces.html

Tessellate_subdivision_surfaces.html

Tessellation.html

Tessellation_and_Approximation.html

Tessellation_and_approximationav.html

Test render a low-res animation

Test render a low-res still or frame

Test textures (and texture ranges)

Texture placement vs. label mapping

Texture_nodes.html

Texturing > Create PSD Network

Texturing > Create Texture Reference Object

Texturing > Delete Texture Reference Object

Texturing > NURBS Texture Placement Tool

Texturing > Select Texture Reference Object

Texturing > Update PSD Networks

Texturing.html

The Node Factory

The speed/quality tradeoff

Tips for working with toon shading

To create mental ray shadow maps

Toon > Assign Fill Shader

Toon > Assign Outline

Toon > Assign Paint Effects Brush to Toon Lines

Toon > Convert Toon to Polygons

Toon > Create Modifier

Toon > Get Toon Example

Toon > Paint Line Attributes

Toon > Reverse Surfaces

Toon > Set Camera Background Color

Toon examples

Toon line connections

Toon Shading

Toon shading overview

Troubleshoot 2D Motion Blur problems

Troubleshoot 32 bit TIFF and IFF images are black

Troubleshoot ambient occlusion transfer map appears grainy with lost details

Troubleshoot animated objects swim through 3D texture

Troubleshoot background surfaces show through

Troubleshoot baking quality with final gather

Troubleshoot black holes appear on rendered surfaces with displacement maps

Troubleshoot cannot find main function

Troubleshoot cannot open input file "shader.lib"

Troubleshoot can’t see the place2DTexture swatch

Troubleshoot caustics don’t work or look incorrect

Troubleshoot crash or render abort

Troubleshoot cube maps swap front and back images

Troubleshoot dark spots or streaks on illuminated surfaces (outside of shadows)

Troubleshoot Dmap resolution changes don’t update in IPR

Troubleshoot edits in the Texture Editor don’t update in IPR

Troubleshoot Environment Fog problems

Troubleshoot error messages

Troubleshoot final gather file problems

Troubleshoot final gather ignores Render Stats settings

Troubleshoot final gather renders black

Troubleshoot fur shadows flickering

Troubleshoot general mental ray for Maya rendering issues

Troubleshoot global illumination doesn’t work or looks incorrect

Troubleshoot glow flickers throughout animation sequence

Troubleshoot grainy or flickering shadow edges (raytraced shadows)

Troubleshoot grainy or flickering shadows in illuminated fog

Troubleshoot grainy or jagged background image

Troubleshoot hardware shadows produce unexpected results

Troubleshoot HDR image warning message

Troubleshoot highlight artifacts close to object edge

Troubleshoot image plane displays black swatch

Troubleshoot inaccurate shadows from shadow depth maps

Troubleshoot jagged edges

Troubleshoot jagged or flickering shadow edges

Troubleshoot lights don’t cast shadows

Troubleshoot lights don’t light the object

Troubleshoot looping renders

Troubleshoot memory exceptions

Troubleshoot mental ray area lights created using point lights (Maya 7.0)

Troubleshoot mental ray for Maya aborts rendering when using normal maps

Troubleshoot Motion Blur

Troubleshoot movies don’t play on Image Plane

Troubleshoot movies files are slow to load

Troubleshoot Multi-UVs for NURBS don’t software render

Troubleshoot my blurred file texture looks crisp, not blurred

Troubleshoot Network rendering with mental ray for Maya

Troubleshoot no photons stored after emitting 10000 photons

Troubleshoot node factory errors in Script Editor

Troubleshoot Normal Mapping

Troubleshoot NURBS surface blend renders incorrectly

Troubleshoot objects vibrate when an animation is rendered as fields

Troubleshoot photon tracing limitations

Troubleshoot photons are not bright enough

Troubleshoot projection texture swims over an animation

Troubleshoot raytraced shadow artifacts

Troubleshoot render layers do not render correctly when exporting a .mi file