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Rendering Multiple Passes in Maya (Includes Scene Files)

Use Maya's Render Layers For More Control Over Your Final Image

In this tutorial Christophe Desse shows us how he uses Maya's Render Layers to give him more control over his final render.
Using a real life production-ready scene file, Christophe covers Render Layers, Masks, Ambient Occlusion and settings for Mental Ray.
This tutorial also includes all the files necessary for you to follow along and create your own hot-rod render.

Post Date: August 7, 2008

Comments / Questions

Melissa Li

Hi Christophe,
I just downloaded this tute and I came across a problem when opening up the scene file in Maya. Is it normal that the Render Globals Settings not appearing?

I get this message in the script editor:

// Error: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2008/scripts/others/createMentalRayGlobalsTab.mel line 1692: Cannot use data of type no type in a scalar operation. //

Thanks in advance!

Posted October 11, 2008 - 08:05am

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Christophe Desse

hello, melissa ,
are you using maya 2008 extension 2 ?
from the error message it seem that your maya is not able to call the mental ray function
may be your mental ray plugin is not correctly loaded ?
feel free to send me an email ,icq or msn if this is not working

regards,

Posted October 11 2008 - 11:57am