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Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Egor_Danilov — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:23:15 GMT

I haven't made anything, just put the file. There is even no material preview in attribute manager. Looks like Arnold ignores hdris or doesn't see it.

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

lee_griggs — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 06:06:09 GMT

We need more information Egor (and screengrabs if possible).

Are you using a skydome_light, a sky, a ray_switch shader? What is in the scene?

Are Hypershade thumbnails enabled? What happens when you click on the HDRI thumbnail in the attribute editor?

Are you using the latest version of the plugin?

Are there any error messages when you open the HDRI. What does the log file say when you render the scene?

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Egor_Danilov — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:30:38 GMT

1) I use skydome_light

2) Hypershade thumbnail looks like a gray square (because skydome_light shines with a gray color I guess) (screenshots). HDRI thumbnail looks correct.

3) Nope, it's 3.0.0.2 version. Unfortunately I have no opportunity to get a new version 😕
4) There is no error messages in Script Editor when I connect HDRI with skydome_light, everything is ok. When I start rendering there are some encoding errors in Script Editor (last screenshot)

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Egor_Danilov — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:31:03 GMT

It is very strange problem. In Viewport HDRI is displayed correctly and textures on my model look almost as they shoud do. But in render everything looks like it was filled with gray light.

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

lee_griggs — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:50:59 GMT

What does a render look like? Can you upload a simplified scene somewhere?

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Stephen.Blair — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:25:48 GMT

I'd say you have some special characters like é somewhere, like in the project name, the scene file name, the folder path of the project, or the folder path to the render output

That's what those UnicodeDecodeErrors in the Maya script editor are about

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Egor_Danilov — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:47:20 GMT

1st screenshot - viewport

2nd one - render view. I haven't disable anything like visibility of hdri for camera

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aj5z9q76s18Zhqtl4b9rg9d3wdwMMg?e=r4qRhy Link to my scene

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Egor_Danilov — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:48:31 GMT

Can this error appear because of Russian words in the project, scene file, folder path names?

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Stephen.Blair — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:04:04 GMT

Yes, if those Russian words have special characters...anything that is not abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Re: Hdri doesn't appear in render but appears in viewport. Maya 2018

Egor_Danilov — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:13:43 GMT

Damn... Ok, thank you. I hope there is another cause)