Practising with Lighting in Maya

Session Notes

Concerning my other projects involving 3d software such as Maya. I have been attempting to improve upon my set up of light in Maya before rendering.

So far the crystal angel scene I am planning to submit for this December interim show has improved slightly with a nice proxy sunrise image behind the character.

However, an issue has risen once more when I render using the mental ray plugin in Maya 2016 nothing but a back screen appears and the scene is never shown. Also, I will need this issue resolved since the character features a mental ray glass texture that naturally will only be displayed when I render in mental ray.

Disappointingly the glass texture will also be displayed as a black silhouette using any other of Maya renders such as the "Maya Hardware" renderer. (figure a)

Figure A

By Sebastian Jones