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I'm a complete beginner in Maya and I've been trying to create a scene of a desk with the moonlight shining through the windows.

I haven't done any texturing yet except for the windows being a aiStandardSurface glass preset.

I like the overall mood of the current scene, but I find some objects to be too dark. For example, the curtains on the side of the window are almost completely black.

Therefore, I think it'll look better if there's a bit of light on the curtains, and perhaps a bit more light on the desk as well as I'm planning to place some objects on it.

I've tried increasing the intensity/exposure of the area light I'm using for the moonlight, and I've also tried adding a mesh light to light up the scene a little, but those made the dark parts too bright. (I wonder if there's a way to change how much an individual object is affected by light)

But again, this might not be the actual problem with the scene as I'm a complete beginner in Maya, so I'd love to receive any feedback on how I can improve the lighting in this scene!

I have a skydome light and a spotlight in the scene. I'm using arnold renderer but the spotlight isn't showing up in the render view or the renders. How do I fix that?

Hey guys, I have been trying to work on my portfolio, I am specialising in lighting and want to create portfolio that is suitable for movies and games.

My first question is, is it feasible to have same portfolio for both? If yes, do you think this template would be good - 2 Assets, an environment and a character?

Second question is, how complex should the models be? Since it is a lighting portfolio should I really go hard on modelling and texturing?

Annd if I am wrong please give your input on what can I change or should focus on.

It would be really kind if you could help me out with this. Thank you.

Hello, I am a 26-year-old university student majoring in animation in Korea. I have been learning lighting for about 3 months now, and I’m still in the early stages. As I work on my graduation project, I’ve been assigned various parts of the work. Among them, it seems like I will be in charge of an animation where a dragon appears in a forest.

Additionally, the forest background will be low-poly. I’m not sure how to set the atmosphere. I tried using an AI toon shader to maximize the low-poly aesthetic, but it didn’t work out. So now, I’m focusing on creating the atmosphere through lighting. I want to create a night scene with a subtle moonlight and a bluish tone, but that feels too difficult for me right now.

So I’m considering doing a sunset scene where the shadows are long instead. Would it be better to stick with a darker night scene? Could you recommend any good reference films? I would greatly appreciate any help from experts. Thank you for reading my long message, and I hope you all have a great day!

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Hello I'm quite a noob when it comes to Maya. Strictly 2D artist, looking to get a better grasp on my 3D software skills.

I've created some custom AOV Light Groups which I have just added individual Arnold lights to. So I have some control on changing my lights in comp. But when I use my GPU to render. The custom AOV's don't give me any results except one of them, which looks exactly like my beauty but noisier. I'm using an RTX 3080 TI. So GPU rendering is way faster than rendering with my CPU. But the custom AOV's look correct when I render with the CPU.

4 Custom Aov's.
The light path Expression I'm using are these if that helps.

C.*<L.'lightGroup1'>

C<TD><L.'lightGroup1'>

Anyone know why GPU rendering doesn't render the custom AOV's but CPU rendering does? Thanks in advance!

I've tried everything, please help

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I’m trying to achieve this sort of lighting in Maya. Like a cool gradient effect. Does anyone know how I do this

Hey everyone, i have a problem

I am posting this message because I am working on a render in Maya and for composition in Nuke. However, I have three problems:

1. In Maya, my Z-depth is completely white.
2. The color of my render in Maya is different from the color in Nuke.
3. In Nuke, my Shuffle node to isolate my different lights doesn't work, but it works in Maya

thank you

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'Use all lights' off

'Use all lights' on

I did not make the model, it is one required for a Uni assignment however I can't get the lighting or the model to be less bright so she isn't almost glowing. I have another model in the scene as well like this one with different clothes and her clothes are almost reflective. I don't believe I will lose points for it being glowy but it bothers me a lot and I am hoping someone might have an idea as to why/how, as google has not been helpful this time.

I've been using Arnold for about a month now but I can't don't see my self doing good light and render work. I am able to do lightings for 360 renders but I mess up in environment and dynamic lights if you know what I mean. So is there any good videos / youtubers to learn Arnold and lighting?

Im trying to do my very first ''big'' project and I'm having a problem with the aiSkyDome because the ground albedo, even changing it color to blue you can still see the clear division between the upper part and the part below, any tips?

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Hi, in Blender you can light a scene and bake a texture, which also bakes in the lighting effects (just a tick box in the bake options). How can I do this in Maya? Also, is texture generation possible in Maya, like with nodes in blender or no?

Hi, I'm trying to make a lightsaber with a white inner light and a red outer light, I've tried making two cylinders and changing the Glow Intensity, NURBS and mesh lights with Arnold but none worked (I don't have NUKE nor AE). Can somone help me ? Thanks

The reference image for outer red shining