Texture problem Mental Ray

Chucky · September 28th, 2003

I have quit al lot of experience with Maya and now I try to learn some more about Mental Ray in Maya 5.0.
Only one problem with texturing I can not fix, maybe someone knows a solution.
When I texture a wall with a Maya-shader (a lambert with a JPG attached to the color-node) the texture looks good as long as I don't repeat the texture.
I use the normal way of assinging the texture to the face and then use: texture>planar mapping.
As long as the texture does not repeat, it look perfect, but when I repeat by scaling the planar mapping it becomes black in the rendering.

I tried to achieve the same by scaling the texture in de 2Dplacementnode in the hypeshade. But then I get the same kind of result.

Andy · September 30th, 2003

I'd say to get answers probably quicker go to www.cgtalk.com and down to the Maya forum.

Cgtalk has alot more active Maya users.

Chucky · October 10th, 2003

Problem solved!
Mental Ray doesn't like it when I switch off the filtering.

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September 28th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Chucky Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Netherlands Age: 34 Posts: 22 Name: Ivo Bakker	I have quit al lot of experience with Maya and now I try to learn some more about Mental Ray in Maya 5.0. Only one problem with texturing I can not fix, maybe someone knows a solution. When I texture a wall with a Maya-shader (a lambert with a JPG attached to the color-node) the texture looks good as long as I don't repeat the texture. I use the normal way of assinging the texture to the face and then use: texture>planar mapping. As long as the texture does not repeat, it look perfect, but when I repeat by scaling the planar mapping it becomes black in the rendering. I tried to achieve the same by scaling the texture in de 2Dplacementnode in the hypeshade. But then I get the same kind of result.

September 30th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Andy Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 9 Name: Andy Lemus	I'd say to get answers probably quicker go to www.cgtalk.com and down to the Maya forum. Cgtalk has alot more active Maya users.

October 10th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Chucky Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Netherlands Age: 34 Posts: 22 Name: Ivo Bakker	Problem solved! Mental Ray doesn't like it when I switch off the filtering.

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