Added: 30 August, 2007
Group: Maya
Create realistic looking Onion
Author: TechTut.com
page: 2

Onions in Maya part 2


Go to shading group and set colors dark green and white:

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Set Illumination and a little specular

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Add three spot lights and make a test render:

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As you can see, we have a nice alpha channel also:

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Now create a plane and turn on shadows:

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Make a render:

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To be able render in mental ray you must convert it into polygons or nurbs:

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It will create a shader, you can tweak it.
This onion can be used as on picture
(I converted it to nurbs and made adjustments on shader)

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