i render all day long cause im lighting TD and we here have chosen vray 7 years ago. we have a little farm and need a lot of masking stuff. so vray was the best move. i have done smoe reavaluation in the last month. i tested arnold, mr, renderman and redshift. arnold: great render engine fast for lookdev. optimized for…
Here's what I think. CPU Render a) Mental Ray gives you most control of the bunch but also the least intuitive. They're improving the interface a lot as of late and since it's free anyway you should give it a shot and see if you like it. b) V-ray is in the middle. Lots of settings you can play with (not as much as MR),…
I am using autodesk maya 2016 and wondering which render engine should I choose, mental ray or v-ray? I used mental ray already and am interested to hear your thoughts, thank you :) (by used I mean watched Digital tutors tutorials about it and rendered a few images myself, but not an expert)
This looks great but the thing is I really want to learn this render engine, I want to be able to view my work as a rendered result but I cant seem to find a really good tutorial or course about v-ray, I found their site which is great but I would like to find a course like the new ones made by gnomon which is cut to the…
if you're looking for a pre cal render engine, I'd go for V-ray since there's A LOT of knowledge on the web, if you want sometime more " easy " you could go for Arnold, solidangle's doc is amazing btw, Mental ray is kinda outa dated, nobody really use it anymore, hf !
The one linked above is up to date. It's for 3.1 You shouldn't limit yourself to vray for maya tuts. Have a look at the vray for max tuts also. Practically the same in both. I learned a lot from the older gnomon vray series for maya- which is very in depth- even though I use max.
thank you, I am learning from this course right now, http://www.lynda.com/Maya-tutorials/Learning-V-Ray-Maya-Professional-Reference-Guide/126058-2.html have a good day :)