Free light IES files!

Look no further if you are trying to find some nice IES files for your interior 3D scenes. This pack of 30 lights should do the trick for your project. Download IES Files WEBSITE IS DOWN NOW SORRY

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V-ray for Maya and the disappearing VFB

I found a fix for users of V-Ray for Maya who are having problems with V-Ray’s VFB disappearing when you try to bring it up. I have no idea what causes this but it's an easy fix! Open your Maya ASCII file in a text editor I use Textpad and delete the VFB parameters.

Just search for the file for “VFB” and delete that set of data. Save as a copy and reopen in Maya and the VFB will work again. 

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Scale or Transform ONLY selected faces from center of faces not entire object (Maya)

There is a little tool you have to select to scale only the faces from their own center and not the entire object. as shown in these examples.

Right click and hold in the view port choose "object select" in the quick menu. Select your object, then right click hold and go to faces selection. Select the faces you want to scale. Then in the top menu go to Edit Mesh>Transform Component.

(UPDATE THIS IS NOW CALLED SIMPLY TRANSFORM in the menu)

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Compositing Ambient Occlusion, AO from Maya, Max, XSI, etc.

This post by Zap on mental ray is just to good to forget so I have posted his theory image here for how to CORRECTLY composite your render layers. If you don't understand it please check out his blog post for the detailed explanation.

http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com/2008/11/joy-of-little-ambience.html

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