And to show I am not just here to laugh, the answer to #2 and #3 below: #2: No, and whats more, do not fcheck while rendering. That has always been a sure way to kill your render. Seriously, you have to specify the end frame to be at least 2 or 3 frames BEFORE the current frame that is rendering in order to not crash. Been like that ever since the beginning. Last time I checked, it was still a bug. Of course, it depends upon the renderer you are using, so if you are using mental ray or (God help you) the Maya renderer, then you cannot see it while it renders. If you are using some other renderer with its own render viewer, perhaps 3Delight, then you can watch it render with that software's render viewer.
#3: You are correct, and to see more stuff, go to the top (happily, I don't have Maya installed at the moment, so I can't check the exact menu wording) of the Outliner and you will see that you can enable the viewing of more "things" in the Outliner. It defaults to simplifying your view (which I always hated) but you can change that to show you every ugly little node it shoves into your scene. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Gerbrand Nel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Guys > So I'm getting into Maya, and so far it's horrible. > I realize that Maya animators must be more passionate about 3D than me, > because there is no way I would have put up with this shit for the last 10 > years. > Rant aside, I was hoping someone could help me make sense of a few things. > > 1: selecting hierarchies: > I don’t understand why Maya insists on making the whole hierarchy green > when I only select the top node. What is the benefit of this, and can I > turn it off? > I also find that when I select multiple objects in a hierarchy, the second > last thing I selected goes white, but the thing I select stays green. this > makes it hard to tell weather I selected the object or not. > Am I using it wrong? > > 2: Is there a way to interactively see my frames rendering? I know I can > fcheck or load the rendered frames in aftreFX, but this doesn't help if my > frames takes 20 min a frame. > 3: I assume the outliner is there to do what the explorer in soft does, > but half the things in my scene is missing. Is there a comprehensive scene > navigator where I can see everything, like we can in the explorer? > > Thanks, I'm going to stop here before I get on the drama-lama. > G > > -- Perry Harovas Animation and Visual Effects http://www.TheAfterImage.com <http://www.theafterimage.com/> -25 Years Experience -Member of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
