Reduce Texture Size baed on Camera Distance

CreativeSheep

I know it's possible to have Mental Ray take an extremely high resolution texture and the further away the object is from the camera, all the textures are reduced to a minimum of 1K so the render is not using system resources to render an object in the distance. If someone can gear me in the right direction ?

.Wiki

You can load mipmapped TIF and EXR Files with mentalray. They can be created with commandline tools.

https://elementalray.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/texture-publishing-to-mental-ray/

CreativeSheep

Forgot about mipmapped, I hopefully can take it from here, thanks

Clark Coots

In your texture File node in Maya you can also set it to Mipmap, which will reduce flicker for large textures at a distance. You'd have to do this for all your textures though. I believe however Mental Ray still loads in the full resolution of the texture, then only when it decides it needs a Mipmap level it will use it. Best to optimize texture resolution before hand, it'll speed up that initial load time before it starts rendering the buckets. (At least I think that's how it works....)