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mental ray in Maya: Rendering Workflow An in-depth guide to learning the fundamentals of rendering with mental ray
Software: Maya 7 and higher (Maya 8 required for project files) Run Time: 3 hrs. 23 min., 1 disc
Add stunning detail and visual depth to your work and easily learn
the fundamentals of rendering with mental ray in Maya. Contains over 3 hours of
project-based training. Perfect for beginner and intermediate users.
Popular highlights include:
Global Illumination
Emitting GI Photons from Lights
Photon Falloff, Intensity, and Count
Final Gather
Mixing FG/GI Effects
Image-based lighting (HDR)
Creating HDR images
Caustics
Subsurface Scattering (skin)
MR_fast_skin shader
Ambient Occlusion
Light Baking
HDR Light Baking
Dielectric
DGS
Participating Media
Phenomena
Passes
Overview of mental ray materials
1.
Introduction and project overview
2:35
2.
Using Global Illumination and
understanding how Global Illumination photons work
12:41
3.
Understanding Final Gather and
exploring Final Gather techniques
12:47
4.
Storing, reusing, and visualizing
Final Gather maps
11:18
5.
Combining Global Illumination and
Final Gather effects in your scenes
9:23
6.
Using image-based lighting to achieve
photorealistic renders in mental ray
17:39
7.
Exploring techniques to help avoid
Final Gather flickering in animated scenes
10:18
8.
Using caustic photons to achieve
realistic light refraction patterns in glass objects
16:53
9.
Exploring mental ray attributes found
in your Maya shaders, such as Scatter, Reflection Blur, and Refraction
Blur
8:51
10.
Exploring the properties and uses of
mental ray's DGS material
7:25
11.
Using the mental ray Dielectric
material and Dielectric Photon shader to simulate physically accurate
glass and liquids
8:11
12.
Exploring mental ray's Car Paint
shader
13:25
13.
Using mental ray's Subsurface
Scattering nodes to simulate the way light passes through skin
14:21
14.
Using the Ambient Occlusion node in
mental ray to simulate soft indirect shadowing effects
9:01
15.
Using the Batch Bake function to bake
lighting and shadowing information onto your object's texture maps
4:23
16.
Working with Participating Volumes in
mental ray to simulate smoke and fog effects in your scenes
9:05
17.
Using Maya's built-in Render Layers to
render out multiple passes of your Maya scene for compositing purposes
9:41
18.
Creating a mental ray Phenomenon (part
1)
10:51
19.
Creating a mental ray Phenomenon (part
2)
14:43
Total Run Time:
3:23:00
Item #:
MAF-048
Software Requirement:
Maya 7 and higher (Maya 8 required for project files)
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