MentalRay and smoothProxy... no render

[MannaTheBerserk]

Hi guys,

here's a little trouble that's happened during a render with MR and a simple poly mesh obtained by using smoothproxy. Try this:

1) Create a polyCube

2) make it a smoothProxy with 2 divisions and exponential method

3) Render it with MR

4) Now, move some vertices on your lowpoly proxy

5) Render again the smoothed version... nothing is rendered and a message appear into the script editor saying that mayaToMr detects "no faces" and therfore ignores your geometry.

Any issues about it?

Thank you in advance to everybody :)

Mauro

P.S. this doesn't happen in Maya 7.x but only from version 8 to version 8.5.

And it appears to happen only into the renderview, not in batch.

[djx]

You need to place a command in your preRenderLayerMel slot in renderSettings window. The command is...
dgdirty -a;

Would have been nice if they had fixed this in 8.5, but maybe I didnt shout loud enough or long enough when 8.0 came out.:mad:

[MannaTheBerserk]

Thank you very much djx :)
I was losing my hope :(

I'll try this :cool:


bye

Mauro

[Kevin]

WooHoo! That works.

I've just been having the same problem. I spent hours yesterday tearing out hair I can ill afford to spare these days. :)

Thanks for that.