Forgot to mention you may need to adjust image clipping to 'none' in your render preferences. Possibly another setting or two, but start there.
Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 6:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: xray polygons? The area to be masked is not the entire object, but a single polygon on that object. And the polygon itself has to be a keyhole through any other polygons behind it on the source object, as well as any geometry behind the object which the poly belongs to. While a matte would be a good analog if I were compositing multiple objects together, the primary need is to mask parts of the object which the poly belongs to. Will try the surface port disconnect. Thanks Joey ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]] on behalf of Matt Lind [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 5:56 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: xray polygons? Isn't that what a matte is for in a compositor? An easy way to do that in Softimage is to unplug the 'surface' port of the material on the polygon. Mental ray will render the affected pixels as RGBA = (0,0,0,0). Matt From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: xray polygons? Soooo...... Can Soft create xray polygons? A material maybe? The idea is that I want to have a polygon render invisible but everything behind it render invisible(with no alpha) as well. Basically a mask poly. Maya had the ability to do this but can't remember what it was called. In other applications it was xray, allowed you to see through things. Can soft do this? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
