Color of my object seems to follow color of background

[leeman]

hi, im having problems when I try to shade my objects and background in, when I try to colour my object in, the whole background turns that color too, what should I do?

[McGergs]

a little more info would be nice.

What kind of surface?
What kind of shader?
What renderer?

[leeman]

i have a nurbs plane, a group of polygon shapes, some particles acting like snow and a nurbs sphere. The nurbs plane is a lambert, the same as the polygon shapes and the nurbs sphere.I'm using the maya hardware renderer because when i try to use the maya software, the particles wont show.

[danlefeb]

You'll have to render your geometry in the software renderer and then your particles in the hardware renderer and composite them together.

[McGergs]

What version of Maya are you using leeman?

You can do a layered render in Maya 6.5 and above I believe.

HEre is a tutorial DT has that uses renderman and mental ray together in a layered render. You can do the same technique with the hardware and sowtware renderer.

http://www.digitaltutors.com/digital_tutors/video_details.php?v=799

[leeman]

thanks for the info, I have maya version 6.5. I'll attempt what you both said and see what happens then, thanks again.