Troubleshooting Surfaces (Maya software)
 
 
 

To fix faceted surface edges or profile

  1. Do any of the following:

To fix aliased surface edges or profile (for Maya software and mental ray for Maya)

  1. If you do not plan to composite the rendered image, turn on Premultiply in the Render options section of the Render Settings window.

To fix flickering thin surfaces (for Maya software only)

  1. Do the following:

To fix flickering textures or popping displacements

  1. For solid textures, make sure Use Min Screen is off for the surface and Mode U and Mode V are not set to Best Guess Based on Screen Size.

    For image file textures or textures with noise, Increase Filter Offset (to the lowest value that produces acceptable results).

    For image file textures, set Filter Type to Quadratic for the texture.

To fix outlines around 2D motion blurred surfaces (for Maya software only)

  1. Do either of the following:

To fix grainy or flickering highlights (for Maya software only)

  1. Do either of the following:

To fix jagged edges or jagged or sharp textures on motion blurred surfaces (for Maya software only)

  1. In the Anti-aliasing Quality section of the Render Settings window, set Presets to 3D Motion Blur Production.

To fix jagged surface edges, textures, or shadows in raytraced reflections or refractions (for Maya software only)

  1. In Render Settings window, set the Anti-aliasing Quality to Contrast Sensitive Production (Highest) quality, then turn on Shading Samples Override for the reflecting/refracting surface, and increase Shading Samples (to the lowest value that produces acceptable results).