Reduce Texture Size baed on Camera Distance

CreativeSheep · Feb 2015

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 · Feb 2015

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 · Feb 2015

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

Clark Coots · Feb 2015

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....)

Reduce Texture Size baed on Camera Distance

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