I'm finishing up an animation and have a lot of latices and sculpt deformers working. Can I asume that mental Ray won't initiate the deformers? I've had bad luck with Mental Rayt and Wire deformers in the past. The frames came out as if I never animated the wires.
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Can I asume that mental Ray won't initiate the deformers?
Only if you gallantly disregard the inner workings dg. othrwise it shoul work. But yes even leaving one needed connection can cause collapse of the entire thing. But that should in general never happen, if it does your doing something very ugly in your rig.
So if you repeatedly have this problem then theres something worng in how you set up and work with maya. * Ths does not mean baking cant be a good idea since it can save hellofalot of time. if you use 2008 you can use the cache. Please note this van be EVEN more problematic on network renderings.
But if you always bake everything you wont know what your doing wrong repeatedly. This kac kick yur as quite heavily.
- this is very often a misunderstanding of maya expressions, wich believe me even quite pro users do regulary leading to all kinds of speculations of how bad maya expressions are. a system isnt bad just because it doesn't supervise your sanity.
It's a little hard to say how rediculous my rig may acctually be. You might be on to something. My biggest problem, there is no one here to physically see my files. As far as the network rendering goes, I'm not sure specifically how it is set up. A licence server Maybe? I will be implementing it out of the cmd prmt from a exe.script.
, heh. Well you'd be surprised how many companies spend thousands even hundreds of thousands of dollars on systems thats very well designed, only to save out on their own use and cast away all the stuff they paid for,
(for some reason systems bottleneck is often a user who doesn't know what they are doing. and ths does NOT conecide with the output even a experienced user with good results might use a system totally sub optimally. While they are god they are missing on how good they COULD be. Offoutrrse soem people are aware of this its fine if tis a concious choise)
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I will be implementing it out of the cmd prmt from a exe.script.
yes but be careful here, some part of maya glue is localized to the GUI so part of the problem is that when maya misses a gui the right working of the dg becomes imperative. THis the problem is entered already just because you sue batch that does not have the hooks you take for granted.