Better rendering engin

[ecehaic]

hello, ive been using maya for a while now, and im just sick to death of its rendering engin, it looks horrable, i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on another rendering engin that is fairly easy to use and will make my renders look better?

[goggle]

um,... mental ray? it comes with maya these days. You could also talk to the guys at Pixar and get yourself a copy of Renderman and the RAT for Maya.

There are also a number of other renderers out there. There was a recent post someone here wrote their own renderer, Iguana i think it was called.

Personally I think you can get some good results form the default renderer. it just takes a little more work. I've learned a lot about lighting and texturing and such from trying to overcome the shortcomings of the Maya renderer.

Hope this helps.

-James

[joojaa]

If you know what you are doing you get good results with whatever renderer you choose.

If however you dont know what you are doing no renderer will save you. Altough honestly slapping fg or a ambient occlusion on top of anything seems to help a bit.

And the maya default renderer isnt bad.. at all. Not even close. A little slow maybe, but it does require you to know what you are doing. Same also applies to prman (altough its easy to crank up the quality and get beutifuly aad objects with it, but enable raytracing and youll die standing)!