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A pretty basic tutorial on how to create a mirror in Maya. Let me know if you have any comments or questions.
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28 responses to “Maya tutorial : How to create a mirror in Maya”
You could have made this video in 10 seconds – asign mia material x – set preset to chrome
There isn't a plug in to allow me to use metal ray, how do I get it?
For those wanting to try this on Maya 2018, after the Mental Ray apocalypse, the mia substitute in Arnold it's: aiStandardSurface
Dear Mr.Mike, thank you for this tutorial video, can i ask some question, i am using Maya 2017 for Student, when i click on the Polygon Plane or Polygon Cube, it automatically create the plane at the middle, how can change this to manual ? Sorry for my bad English, i'm new on Maya. Thank you!
Hi mike, first at all, ty so much for the tutorial series, and second…
I dunno why i only have 3 presets only on the quality of the mental ray sampling mode. I am in maya 2014×64.
Any suggestions?
thank you.
and also when i tried to create a reflection in a reflection, what i mean by that is that i put 1 mirror in front of my model and another at the back, i only get like 4 series of reflection. my goal is to see infinite reflection. is it possible in maya 2014?
thnx.
When I click one in the polygon, it's automatically set in the middle of the grid. I How can I make it?
Any suggestions on making one side of the mirror so the camera can see through it? In other words, an infinity mirror?
Thank you so much man! I really need this in my finals.
How can I create a mirror effect in vray
i have a problem when making mirror, instead having only the mirror reflecting, everything reflects, its like everything becomes mirror
Thank you, it's really helpful
I don't have mia?!
Very helpful and easy to understand your step by step explanations. I'm Doing 1 of my artwork exhibit then i have a problem why my mirror have some kind of freezing effect XD. It's because i used mental ray – presets of thin glass…
Hi Mike, thanks for this tutorial as usual. Even if this mirror thing is easy, I'm struggling a lot. When I try to render it says : output data type "rgba_h" not directly supported by image format iff, conversion performed by mental ray.
Doing some research I tried various fix:
1- Changed Iff to another format (TIFF)
2- Changed Rgba from half to short and from 4×16 to 4×8 bit under FrameBuffer in the Quality Tab
3- Deleted pref in documents and loaded default settings
4- Done various new scenes with a fresh default Maya
5- Even if Maya says that is a rgba problem, the console shows this instead: 12 MB error 301031: call to undeclared function "maya_color_transform_data"
No idea how to fix this. Can you help me? : (
(I'm using Maya 2015 – Student Version)
I cannot find Production under quality presets. I am on Maya 2015 on Mac. Can you please help?
Thank you, it was very helpful 🙂
can we render this in vray?
by changing any settings?
hello , plz help me .. i can't find quality presets . heeelp
ughhmm i dont have that mia_material_x with my maya.. mine is 2016
Thanks vm man, really appreciate it, cuse im trying to make a portfolio for my college so i get accepted
when you were talking about the render settings i was having some problems there im currently using maya 2016 and all those settings except the HD 720 were not even in that menu
Does the mirror effect work if the mirror is exported into After Effects?
Umm sir, is there any other plug ins thats needs to be downloaded? also is there a website you know of to have practice creating objects because i get bored doing the same thing over and over with the same skills.
I see mental ray on my download maya 2016 idk how to activate it i already have all my plug in manager loaded.
when i typed in mia on assigning material nothing showed up, do you know how to fix this? i am using maya 2016
could you please make a video for modelig a swing,thanks
Mike, I have two suggestions for you
• Could you do a beginners video
• Could you show how to create a castle in Maya