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How to set up render layers

How to set up render layers - Maya Tutorial

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How to set up render layers

- [Voiceover] In this video, we're going to start where we left off in the last video, with our scene that was prepared for us and then we set up proper mentalrayVertexColored nodes for, give it a render our vertex colors properly. And the function of this video is to look at Maya's new render layer system and how it's an improvement of the old system and allows us to set up render agnostic overrides really easily. First, let's pull up that new window. So we have an icon here with these two little, kind of sheets stacked on top of each other, we're going to open that up, and we get Render Set Up. I'm going to pull this out real quick, because it might open as it's own window for you. But it's cool, it's a dockable window and for our screen real estate and to show this comfortably here, we're going to drag this over till we kind of get a little movement open here and we're going to dock it on the left side of our interface. Okay, cool. What we're going to do is we're going to create…

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