Start seeing better results. Learn practical workflows to simulating physically accurate lighting and rendering various surface types and gain a comprehensive overview of the high performance tools and new features of mental ray in Maya 2009. Contains nearly 4 hours of project-based training and step-by-step recipes for new artists.
Popular highlights include:
- Overview of mental ray
- Global Illumination
- Emitting GI Photons from Light Sources
- Photon Energy and Decay Parameters
- Final Gather
- Controlling Final Gather Accuracy
- Adding Secondary Final Gather Bounces
- Mixing Final Gather and Global Illumination
- Saving and Reusing Lighting Data
- Importons
- Irradiance Particles
- Portal Lights
- Image-based Lighting
- HDR Exposure Controls
- Caustics
- Emitting Caustic Photons from Lights
- Subsurface Scattering Shader
- Ambient Occlusion Shader
- mental ray Architectural Materials
- Render Passes for Multi-pass Rendering
- Creating Pass Contribution Maps
Lesson Outline:
| 1. |
Introduction and Project Overview |
1:51 |
| 2. |
Render Settings changes in Maya 2009 |
2:10 |
| 3. |
Using Global Illumination |
14:17 |
| 4. |
Using Final Gather |
16:05 |
| 5. |
Using Global Illumination and Final Gather together |
5:51 |
| 6. |
Saving and reusing indirect lighting information |
12:15 |
| 7. |
Image-based lighting using mental ray IBL |
12:17 |
| 8. |
Alternative workflow for image-based lighting |
11:52 |
| 9. |
Simulating caustic light patterns |
14:56 |
| 10. |
Working with mental ray architectural materials |
15:09 |
| 11. |
Using mental ray photonic materials |
8:13 |
| 12. |
Exploring displacement approximations |
14:08 |
| 13. |
Overview of Subsurface Scattering |
15:32 |
| 14. |
Incorporating Physical Sun and Sky shaders |
6:39 |
| 15. |
Utilizing Portal Lights |
9:16 |
| 16. |
Overview of Render Layers |
11:44 |
| 17. |
Understanding Render Passes |
11:47 |
| 18. |
Setting up pass Contribution Maps |
7:40 |
| 19. |
Using Importons and Irradiance Particles |
19:10 |
| 20. |
Utilizing photographic exposure controls |
13:31 |
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Total Run Time:
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3:44:32 |
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