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Re: Baking AO with Mental Ray ...... HELL!!
Yeah, Mental Ray is known to be finicky like that, don't bake with Mental Ray, especially in Max, period. Either bake in scanline or Xnormal for several reasons (at least for AO): 1) Scanline doesn't create surface banding, which happens with MR on low settings. 2) MR requires ridiculous settings = Time needed for bake is… -
Comicon Challenge 2010 3D Showcase
Things have come to a close over at Game Artisans on their ever popular annual contest, the Comicon Challenge and what a challenge it has been. I'd like to congratulate all those that completed their entries (unlike myself) and best of luck with the judging process, we look forward to seeing the winners. But for now, for… -
Re: engine room
Uhg... scanline. Mental Ray is really much better, and lets you cache the shadow and radiosity to files for animation. I would use MR with the photometric lights. You can still get a 'shotgun' type look, if you don't have enough photons with MR. MR also has area lights that can produce nice results. I checked ou your… -
Re: misc. maxscript UV scripts/tools
You can cause some lighting problems and scene insatiability if you're switching the rendering engine back and forth, which they would no doubt blame on your script. Problems like normal lights in the scene becoming overly bright, or causing shadow errors because MR adds shadow parameters to lights which are left on after… -
Re: Best way to get this effect
To do this in mental ray there are 3 pretty important elements 1: The material Create a standard material and put an 'ambient reflective occlusion' shader in the diffuse slot. 2: the lighting In the create panel go to systems and select Daylight system. drag out a compass and light. in the lights modifier panel set the Sun… -
Re: Arch & Design material (3ds Max, mental ray) render result is too glossy, which parameters to tweak
1 - MR A&D is an old pre-GGX shader. The IOR/Fresnel will not match SP. I don't even think that there's an MR preset in SP. Try exporting one of the other offline renderer presets. These presets(older ones) should output all the channels you need including the ior/fresnel. 2 - MR is a physical renderer designed for a… -
Re: today is the worst day of my life..again.
Bad day? sounds like a normal day to me. I recommend mr beer, mrs wine or her friend 'mr daniels' -
Re: My own ZBrush questions!
hahaha, that is what i tought the first time i did it with MR " Who the hell needs displacement in MR when you can subdivide to 4 with turbosmooth!" Take MR with a bit of salt and a some galons of beer Cheers -
Re: Blended normals hack for fake SSS
Ah, thanks for the tip! I'm so used to using MR I never even thought of trying out the others. Why doesn't your blood, sweat, and tears work in MR too? Just curious, that's all. I've always thought of MR as robust. -
Re: Intro to Mental Ray??
looks like an exposure problem. Are you using photometric lights? If so make sure to work in a proper scale. (set scale units to metric or inches) realistic lighting is based on realistic measures. That way you can really be sure of what you are doing. Also as a tip, create a matte arch and design material and put it in…
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