Hasta La Motion!

This seems like it should be the most simplistic thing to do but I have search for hours and hours with no luck. I’m using Maya 2011 and trying to render this scene WITHOUT the plane itself. I need the shadows from the sphere that appear on the plane and the reflection of the plane color on the chrome sphere. I used the plane for 2 reasons. To generate that shadow and to reflect the color of the jacuzzi top. Using IBL and I know this is probably a dirty way to achieve this effect but I’m still learning and am concerned with bigger issues right now 😉

Thanks!

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i referenced one maya file to the new Maya with layers
and i set file name prefix <Scene>/<RenderLayer>/<RenderLayer>
but while rendering batch render
Maya creating 1st a new folder i.e name-space of layers which is come from referenced file and after that start using the name prefix
for every layer .. i checked in 2008/09/10/11 .. is this Maya bug?
is there any solution to fix this issue?
For temporary i am duplicating all the layers and rendering
Thx in advanced 🙂

Hi, everyone, thanks for reading this,

After 9 months development, Miarmy(called My Army or Miami) is coming.
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The reason of our development is that we want to provide another solution which simpler and faster way to create crowd effect just inside of Maya itself.

Miarmy Engine is a tree-structural hierarchical priority decision node system, it can defuzz and create neural network automatically underground without user defining and knowing it.
Decision node, which contains inner priority ranking and fuzzy logic condition, is the unit in tree structure.
Decision node can make decision through condition.

So, no programming and node connection needed!!

Miarmy is not a particle system, we re-write all bone and animation nodes.
Miarmy take PhysX 3.0 integrated. It is diversity, extensible, efficient and promising.
Miarmy support FBIK, Human IK, and any one-bone-chain setup system.
Miarmy uses one-click rendering pipeline, get rid of advanced render setup, support Maya light and shader, etc. Based on 3delight API
Miarmy is based on Maya API, it’s easy for upgrading.

Massive Prime is better than Miarmy in:
Massive has more mature system channels and many presets.
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Massive has action and brain layer (Miarmy 1.5 will provide sub-agent to achieve this)
Massive has IK and RC curve
Massive can re-target to Motion Tree after physical sims turning on
Massive support fur rendering
Massive has parenting channel
Massive can spawn agents.
More!!

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