Thank you. I'm affraid you are right. Oh well, I'll have to switch to FG + GI. :-/

Thank you. But I really need this fix for mia_material_x and Irradiance particles. I believe I have taken care of the obvious reasons why dark spots would occur (i.e. setting trace depth etc. etc.)...

I'm rendering a scene with a wine glass and a square glass in a room. I'm using Irradiance Particles + FG + Importons in Maya 2014. Why am I getting this dark area at the base of the wine glass and...

I believe I like ray tracing better. I want the most photo realistic images I can get without looking like the typical CGs.

At this point I am not looking to buy Renderman. I actually like mental ray. I have 32 gig of ram and eight cores spilt in two Xeon CPUs. What I am trying to determine now is how much more...

Now this looks fast!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ianMNs12ITc

I like the window with the 32 cores on display... :-)

I'll be doing a tone of rendering over the next few years. I can't seem to wait for each frame to render in about an hour. I'm too impatient... :-)

My budget is about $8000 (maybe $9000). I don't want to wait four months to render a super high quality five min animation. I'd like to cut this to two weeks if possible. How can I do this?
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That sucks. So if I buy a new computer with the latest Xeons (dual) how much faster will mental ray be compared with what I have now (dual penryn Xeon X5482)? I just want to see if the upgrade is...

Hi,

I am thinking of buying an Nvidia Quadro 5800 card (or later model if released). So I was wondering, will this card speed up my mental ray renderings? Is it worth the extra $$$? I have a dual...