Hey, I'm trying to learn Mental Ray so I downloaded the book tutorial from the mental ray site, but it just gave me a zip filled with a bunch of .mi files and a few other ones. Anyone know what .mi is for and how I can use it? Or know of other tutorials for it? Thanks.
For my animation class, I chose to use two free rigs I found online, Mery and CGTarian's Ray. I ran into a problem where one of the characters was much larger than the other but I couldn't find a way to scale either of them. Neither of them had global controls or anything I could use to properly change their size when I…
I've got three 1 terabyte HDDs and Win7 64 bit. I'm thinking of doing a reformat and setting it up as a RAID 0 (Striping only) and having an online and offline backup set for my data files. Is the speed increase and efficiency of striping worth it? The apps I use are 3dsMax2012, Mudbox, Sculptris, Photoshop, Sketchbook…
I wish I knew someone who knew Maya so I didn't have to post small questions like this but... Does anyone know how I can get the Create Mental Ray Node to appear? I'm trying to do an ao bake on my object and I can't switch to the Create Mental Ray Node.
Hi all. First time poster, long time lurker here. I'm encountering some weirdness while using batch bake(mental ray) to bake ambient occlusion for a ground terrain object in a level in Maya. If I bake my 1k map within my working scene file, i get a massively blurry result with no fine detail. However if I copy/paste the…
Hello there, I have exported a texture from Megascans to Maya V-Ray but I don't get the results I have expected. I'm sort of new to V-Ray and I don't exactly know what maps it needs and where they go. This is my material with the maps I connected And this is the result. It lacks detail, the normal still looks flat in the…
I'm working on this freeze ray idea i came up with. The upper part of it shoots out the ray to freeze people then the lower barrel can shoot out a metal slug to shatter the frozen person. If anyone has any ideas on how i can make it look a little better that would be great! I'm trying to figure out a good way to connect…
If you have a HDTV and a blu-ray player you have to own this movie! OMFG its the definition of eye candy, hell its better its eye sex! Every time it switches to the 16x9 imax film i have a a nerdgasim from the sheer amount of detail for my eyes to soak up. Anyone else pick it up on blu-ray?
Hi there again! So I've been able to bake AO using the Skylight method in 3DS max 2012.:) However, the results are not as good as Mental ray. The skylight method would always leave a light rim in corners using intersecting geometry. MR does not. I've been experimenting with MR and the big trouble I'm having with it right…
You can still skip the Nvidia experience still I think. I thought they were deprecating the control panel and leaving it to the OS - maybe not, I leave that stuff well alone Anyway, if you're that bothered about privacy windows is a dead end. A good middle ground is to move your day-day computer usage to linux(not Ubuntu…