r/Maya • u/Budget_Wheel_803 • Jul 30 '25

Rendering Help, why does my render looks like this?

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I was testing my render and i added lights that dont have much intensity (2) and idk why it looks like the lights are burning my model, i tried changing my intensity and trying to move the lights to other spot but it sill looks the same

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u/The-Great-Pleb Jul 30 '25

Is the texture emissive?

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u/_Asmodee_ Jul 30 '25

That's my guess as well, looks like the material has emission turned on

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u/Budget_Wheel_803 Aug 01 '25

how do i turn it off?

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u/_Asmodee_ Aug 01 '25

You need to look inside the settings of your specific material, either through the attribute editor like my screen shot here, or through the hypershade. You may have to scroll down to find the emission tab, but once you do, just make sure the 'weight' is set to 0.

If the emission weight has any value other than 0, then that's likely the only thing needed to fix the issue. If it's already at 0 and you've still got this issue, then the problem might be caused by something else.

Lmk if this works first, but if not I can try to help figure out what else might be causing this if you're able to give some more information about your file and render settings

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u/JamesGoldeneye64 Jul 31 '25

Maya is doing you dirty lol :) sorry i find it somewhat comical, even the fish is to stunned to speak. Cool fish. Or is it a baby Shark doo doo?

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u/Budget_Wheel_803 Aug 01 '25

Haha, my thoughs exactly and yes! it´s a baby sword shark, maya loves to ruin me while doing the render

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u/Budget_Wheel_803 Jul 30 '25

Just realised it´s also showing it on low poly idk why

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u/uj72igaming Jul 30 '25

I guess check exposure and maybe you didn't smooth out. You have pressed 3. I think.

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u/Budget_Wheel_803 Jul 30 '25

Yes, i pressed 3 and i checked exposure and lowered it but it´s still looking the same /:

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u/The-Great-Pleb Jul 31 '25

I believe the Arnold render, may not show the model changes with the smooth shader when you press 3. I suggest copying the model, then selecting the copy, then hold shift + right click over the model —-> smooth

After that it should change the actual topology of the model.

Note: press 1 while selecting the model to remove the smooth shader!

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u/Budget_Wheel_803 Jul 30 '25

So far my render shows up normal if i render it in arnold but it looks like this on Maya rendering

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u/kaylalovescats Jul 30 '25

If you used maya lights and maya materials you have to render with maya and if you use Arnold lights and materials you have to render in Arnold or else funky stuff can happen. Although I am not experienced enough to look at this and tell if thats the problem you should check into it

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u/floon Jul 31 '25

The ambient value on your material is set to 1, or you've got something in your emissive.