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Re: A few questions on production quality textures
complex shaders generally do the job of calculating how the objects surface interacts with the shots lights. you still need textures to describe the surfaces. (I have no film experience but I've done rendering for TV using mentalray) -
Re: IBL in Max 2013
This will sound stupid, but I completely forgot about Xoliulshader. I'll still keep looking for mentalray info, just because I'm OCD curious. -
Floating Geometry Cast Shadow+Ao
Hello, Is there a way to disable the backface of mesh to cast shadow ? Basically i need this for the floating geometry not to cast shadows and ao in my hipoly renders. (I want them to render like in viewport) Im using 3dsmax and MentalRay. Thanks. -
Re: Maya: Rendering Vertex painted meshes
are you rendering with maya software or with mentalray ? i remember myvertex colors not showing up with mental ray by default i had to add some node to myshader to make it show up idont recall the name though it hasbeen years ! -
Re: Scifi Crate
Thanks Zakhar2! That helped a lot I switched the filter type off and turned the bump options to Tangent Space, then I switched the rendering to Mentalray. This is the result: -
Re: which app produces the best ambient occlusion bakes?
I think it depends.. with Mentalray in Max I can get nice and chunky/over-the-top AO that I can't seem to acheive with xNormal, ever. -
Re: skin shader
Awesome work. Appreciated all the more since I'm trying to get a solution running for Maya/MentalRay using Tom Bardwell's skin shader as a base. -
Re: Belal Saeed's Sketchbook
Quick sketch piece..otter creature i'm not sure about it loool Modeling with maya and zbrush, textures with zbrush and photoshop and rendered with mentalray for Maya. composed in Photoshop -
Re: What Are You Working On? 2013 Edition
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Re: How do I connect CarPaint & Blinn in Maya
if you plan on rendering and setting up shaders i recommend you use one of the custom mentalray layered shaders available. mix8layers js_multilayer etc, they are much nicer to work with and more efficient at render time. glad you got it sorted tho.
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