Comments on: Tutorial: Multipass rendering in Maya and Mental Ray

By: SomeSanctus

SomeSanctus — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:59:05 +0000

you don’t show work with evaluationPassTrought connections

By: Jayakanthan

Jayakanthan — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:48:01 +0000

Great Tutorial Man…..Thank ! ………………………..

By: vj

vj — Thu, 26 May 2011 08:28:36 +0000

thnx friend for sharing this.

By: otrocoso

otrocoso — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:29:04 +0000

Great tut man, thanks for sharing.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:04:57 +0000

Great tutorial. Thanks for creating and sharing! But here’s the thing: It describes when you have a self contained environment. I’ve tried using Render Passes where there is a character animated, with a simple poly plane to act as ground to receive shadows only. Thing is, no matter what I do, I do not get a true “Shadow Only” render. I get nothing at all, or I get a shadow with the outline of the plane it’s cast on despite using the Use Background shader, and flipping the visibility options. Now, I am a newcomer, but I’ve done it with Maya 2008 quite easily, and using Maya 2011 the results aren’t the same! Any advice ? I’ve scoured and found no tutorials that cover the simple steps- they might mention it, but only in passing. Nothing showing the 1-2-3′s of it! Thanks.

By: tus

tus — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:47:41 +0000

those are very cool tutorials that I have never seen , you Penetrate the veil of mental ray`s renderpass! well done! thanks for sharing man!

By: sandra isaksson

sandra isaksson — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:20:12 +0000

this tutorial taught me more than my teacher could. Well done man!

By: Sokol

Sokol — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:59:29 +0000

im getting missing knod in Nuke

when i try to reconnect others get missing, then i reconnect the other one but then the rest of them get missing too. Like an endless loop.. to further understand its like

if i got 4 outputs,
Output 1 & 2 are missing knods, then i reconnect.
then output 3 & 4 are missing. Then i reconnect but THEN output 1 and 2 are missing again >_<

//Sokol

By: Sokol

Sokol — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:50:17 +0000

Awesome tutorial

Could you make a tutorial about how to comp passes from Maya 2011. ‘Cause they are a bit different from Maya 2010 and older versions x) I can’t comp together the shadow pass. It’s getting jagged edges on some places and there is some black points everywhere. Also if you can make a tutorial about how to gamma correct, ’cause im getting confussed about how it works. especialy in maya 2011 with they new funtion “Enable color manegment”.

Or if you dont have the time if you could explain it to me by mail?

//Sokol

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:18:19 +0000

Hi Gustavo
Excellent tutorial.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to share your skills and knowledge.

Andrew