One would be good enough (with all materials and textures)ģ) import exported model and copy over your sourceimages to the new projectĤ) create a new light and see if that lights anything up by pressing 7 If there is still an issue then:ġ) Export the object or any other objects you want. Then there are issues with your lighting set up, and if thats the case then I would remove all objects from all render layers and try again. If any of these do not change or 7 shows a black screen instead of what you expect and 4, 5 and 6 are all OK. Win 7, i7-930, geforce 9800 GTX+ Maya 2011įirst thing I would check is by chnaging the views in Maya, by pressing: I'm in the process of uninstalling and regedit-ing every and any registry mention of maya out of my computer and will try another reinstall. I've opened this file up on a different computer and am having similar issues - but it hasn't broken everything - scared me at first until I tried another file and Mental ray rendered it fine. If i show materials all the shaders look fine in the modeling panels.Ĭould my lights have spontaneously become disconnected from the render engine?
#Mental ray for maya 2016 install#
I tried repairing maya using the install menu. Worse now I can''t even render a simple ball over a surface with one light.Īll the previously fine files I've tried will not render (unless is maya hardware mode) Tried maya vector and got a black screen. Tried maya software and also got a black screen. Using mental ray I only got a black screen. I've been working on a project for a couple of months (with only the normal maya problems).Īnd then today after working and rendering all morning, I hit render: