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Basics of Maya rendering

Basics of Maya rendering - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya 2023 Essential Training

Basics of Maya rendering

- [Instructor] Now once everything in your scene is modeled, you can start to add color and texture to your objects to create what are called materials. Now, before we dive into materials we need to talk a little bit about rendering and that's because materials are really the first step in the rendering process. So we want to make sure that we're set up to render the materials that we will need. Now, in this course, we're using the Arnold Renderer and there are a number of renderers available for Maya but for this specific course we're going to focus on the default renderer, which is Arnold. Now we can set this up in the view port just by selecting Arnold and then pressing that play button. And you can see we're getting a render within that view port. And this might be enough just to adjust materials as needed. Now, if you do want to render separate images you will have to go through the standard rendering tools in Maya.…

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