Maya Notes

I enjoy taking a boat-load of notes while in class; not sure why - but hopefully this helps! (And maybe I could have posted this earlier; yeah, yeah, I can hear your fists shaking in my direction X3)

FIND ROTATION:

• Grab position object
• Find the circumference (of size 1 sphere = 6.28)
• Take distance, divide it by circ; get the amount of rotations. Say the distance rolled is 20.625 / 6.28 = amount of rotations ( = 3.28)
  
• The object should make 3.28 rotations
• MULTIPLY by 360 [degrees] : That’s ONE FULL ROTATION ( = 1180.8 )
  
• THIS is the distance you will set to the similar axis for ROTATION. BUT: Be sure you’re “rotating” on the ROTATION LAYER

RENDER SETTINGS:

Set up Cameras
• Create camera & aim, line them up
• Click view> camera settings> check on both action safe & overscan
• If issues with rendering switch to perspective, render, than back to camera.

Adjust lights
• Select Rim and Fill lights, attribute editor> shadows> shadow resolution = 1024
• Select Key light, shadow resolution = 2048, filter = 4

Render Settings

File Output
• File Name = Assignment#_BallDescription_Name_Version#
• Eg. Ass3_LightBall_bmclaughlin_v004
• Format= Jpeg
• Frame/Anim ext= name_#.ext
• Frame Padding= 3
• Clcik Edit > change image directory. Under images type ‘images/litball_v001’ (or hvyball, rbrball, wtrball) That will save it into its own folder to help keep your renders organized.

Frame Range
• Set the start and end frame ranges to the proper frames of your animation (24/sec)

Renderable Cameras
• Set to your camera
• Since were rendering jpegs, you can uncheck Alpha channel (Mask)

Image Size
• Can stay as is, 1024 x 768

Rendering
• Switch to the Rendering menu set.
• Render > Batch Render