Geometry Odd Shape-Not Visible Until Render

[randydavisaf]

Fairly new user here:
1) The reference photo shows invisible lines. One the file, you can see that it doesn't exist. Also, some object will not take shaders.
2)After rendering (Renderman), the image/s are very dark. It doesn't look like this when I render within Maya. Is there a setting that I should be aware of?https://episode11productions.com/wp-content/sample.mb 

[hamsterHamster]

1) messy edges on that face-with-hole. look for polyRemesh and polyRetopo;

2) as to renders, you need more light, like domeLight. can't look into your file at the moment

[mspeer]

Hi!

All your triangles are individual faces. Just select one face and move it and you can see they are not connected to each other. Use Edit Mesh -> Merge to correct this.

[randydavisaf]

I didn't see that in the file. I think I need a new graphics card. When I switched to a different shader and then back again, it went away.

[mihirsbcc]

Here is the solution to your problem. 3 steps only. I have attached the scene file too.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QJy-x2dF46cJKsA3tzUffO2OV-QjNw9B/view?usp=sharing 

retopo process

[mihirsbcc]

As Mspeer said. First step is. Select each individual objects vertices and then merged them with a value of 0.0001. In that way all the over lapping tris gets merged.

Next run Remesh command from Mesh menu. Play with the widget lower the value better triangulated geometry. I had real high resolution.

Next run Retopo and give a good amount of poly count. You have to play with the number, what makes good Look.

Note: Retopo will look like it stopped. YOU HAVE TO OPEN YOUR OUTOUT WINDOW to see the progress. It takes some time.

Note:: your most trouble areas are the boolean texts.

DOwnload the Maya file. You can copy the one side to others. Look at the poly counts.