Community
Arnold for Maya Forum
Rendering with Arnold in Maya using the MtoA plug-in.
cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

A couple of suggestions - lights. aovs, materials

3 REPLIES 3
Reply
Message 1 of 4
CiroCardoso3v
279 Views, 3 Replies

A couple of suggestions - lights. aovs, materials

Just a couple of suggestions to make MaxtoA easier to work.


Lights

Quad lights have this annoying thing with the targeted line.

7077-light.jpg

This light is 1 meter wide still you get a "targeted" line that is 15 meters long. This makes really annoying and difficult to work with scenes with multiple lights.


Materials\Viewport

A collegue yesterday asked me how can you show a glass material on the viewport. Turns out if you have a Arnold glass shader on the viewport is just a white block. Meanwhile the Physical Material can do this fine.

7078-glass.jpg


AOV

Would be possible to make the AOV output folder be the same as your render output? Just a simple button to copy that setting. A couple of times I overwriten files because I forgot this tiny detail.

7079-aovs.jpg


Check the solution given by Stephen Blair - https://youtu.be/BK7in7acChg

Are these things possible to do? This is feedback based from people working with Arnold in production.

Lead Enviroment Artist @Axis Studios

Arnold Discord Server


Ciro Cardoso

EESignature

Tags (1)
Labels (1)
3 REPLIES 3
Message 2 of 4

AOVs

Use the RenderFileName and RenderFolder tokens in the AOV Manager
.

.

.

.

.

.

Short video walkthrough, for those who might want it:

https://youtu.be/BK7in7acChg



// Stephen Blair
// Arnold Renderer Support
Message 3 of 4
aaronfross
in reply to: CiroCardoso3v

AOV Manager output should really default to the <RenderFolder> token. Not sure why it's an absolute path by default, this must be some legacy from a previous version before tokens were introduced?

Message 4 of 4

@ thanks for the explanation, I didn't realize that was the way to use it. I am going to put a note on the main post.

Lead Enviroment Artist @Axis Studios

Arnold Discord Server


Ciro Cardoso

EESignature

Can't find what you're looking for? Ask the community or share your knowledge.

Post to forums  

Autodesk Design & Make Report