Maya 2017 - Interior Lighting with Arnold 

Thanks for watching and your kind words

Big thanks to you for watching.

I'm glad you think so.

Glad you enjoyed it!

You made my day just by watching. All the best

Thanks, I'm glad the video was useful to you. Keep coming back.

Thanks for dropping by again. Thanks for your kind words, I'm glad you are enjoying my videos. All the best!

Thanks a lot 😊

Glad it was helpful!

I'm glad you are enjoying my videos. Thanks for watching.

Hi Naru, Thanks for your kind words. Always choose the tools that you like using and never be afraid to try something new. All the best in your 3D work

Hello Ayahuasca, Thanks for clearing that up. You are absolutely right in that the Diffuse Ray Depth are the overall bounces of light in the scene and that is my lack of understanding of Arnold. I tested out some settings in my scene with some surprising results: The higher diffuse ray depth at values between 3 - 12 has no visible effect on creating colour bleed, in my scene, but it does increate the overall diffuse illumination. The diffuse bounce colour of the White walls is also increasing and this is counteracting the spread of the red colour. If all the walls were red I believe this colour would be more visible and Physically accurate. I still haven't found a way of making colour bleed without being physically inaccurate Thanks for your question. It really helps me to get under the hood with what Arnold can do.

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for watching. good things take a while to watch :)

Thanks for watching.

You're very knid

Thanks for your kind words

That's very high praise, but I'm just gad the video was useful.

Thanks for watching

Thanks for watching.

You are welcome

You are very welcome. Thanks for watching

Thanks for watching

Hi Thanks for your question, I can't say what I'm doing is correct, because I'm trying to make a very simple lighting setup using "only" maya. The scene that I'm rendering in the tutorial, I had no plans to take it into Nuke and colour correct it in any way. I would have stuck to a linear workflow if that was case. So I'm only adding the 2.2 gamma correction so that the Arnold render view matches the standard Maya render view. (At least in my version of Maya 2017 they appear different.) So any beginners aren't confused why one image appears darker than the other. At least that's what I tried to achieve: I understand a few people have asked me the similar questions about why I'm displaying the render in 2.2. Linear workflow is a lot more complicated than that, so if you'd like me to make an in depth video on linear workflow please let me know.

thanks for your kindly response.i find other commends already solve my confusion! Anyway, ur Tut still be very helpful for me i will keep follow it. :D

Rafael Juarez that's correct, if your view transform is set to sRGB it is already applying a gamma correction so you don't need to put a 2.2 gamma

He also confused diffuse sampling with ray depth... surprised he hasn't re-done this tutorial

Hello. Do you know any interior lighting tutorial with Arnold which could be really reliable?. I come from 3DSMAX & Corona and I'm discovering MAYA but Arnold still (I think) can't beat Corona...corona is so easy, powerful and fast...And I'm a bit disapointed with Arnold. I can't find new tutorials and good support. Please help me.

yeah,I can not find it either.Have you found it?

Hey Koyukuk, Sorry to hear about your trouble. I'm on a mac too! Do you have one of the new Apple Silicon machines? The files were made about 4 years ago. They should work. But maybe there is an issue with the new systems. Let me know.

Hi Bernardo, The AiUtility Material is a part of Maya 2017. Just make sure that when you are browsing for it make sure you have the "Arnold" section of the shader list selected. By default it has the "Maya" list selected. I hope that helps

Yes it is much easier to work in your own colour space in Maya 2017, but it is still quite difficult to explain what all the fuss is about.