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Re: Faking SSS for realtime?
Zap is a legend. I'm enrolled in that course at the moment. If you have the time you should do it. the information there so far isnt really mentalray specific its all about light and rendering. -
Re: Advice on a good Desktop
For rendering, ie vray, mentalray, etc. what you want is a fast CPU. The GPU is for realtime performance (ie. the viewport in Max / Maya / Unreal Engine /etc.), or for special GPU-based renderers. -
Re: Alpha problem in Maya
Yeah try setting the filter type on the place 2d texture to mipmap or off. If the problem persists do you have access to mentalray I'd like to know if the problem appears in that renderer as well. -
Re: washed out lighting in mental ray
Honestly, skip mentalray and use the integrated arnold renderer. The renderer is much easier to setup and more artist-friendly. -
Re: Tip-Zero Effort Beveling for normal maps
someone earlier mentioned that maya cant bake with mentalray. I cant test it myself as i'm not a maya user -
Re: Rendering normal maps in Maya
You need to enable the maya derivitives setting or your mentalray render will not work, or so it says in the help file. -
Re: 3DSMax RTT - How to bake using alpha thru DIF/NRM/etc.?
I tried mentalray as well, it's no different basically, I had it default tho, maybe some magic setup on mental ray would make this thing work, but again, I don't know how. -
Re: How do you create your Skybox
http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_8.5_infinite/ this program's pretty awesome for making skies/terrain. It also integrates into max so you can use mentalray + lens shader to render a 360 view. -
Re: Testimony WIP(Car animation)
Another thing I'd like to say is that this is not gonna be used for games. Its gonna be rendered with mentalRay for a 1 minute animation. -
Re: Sketchbook: Tinman
Wow cool materials! Did you overlay some mentalray concrete/noice on top of your sculpt to get that look?
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