thanx a lot guys!i will try to begin the texture tonight.

sweet!

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i made some test with fur and i saw that maya software make the fur look a lot more realistic than mental ray.am i right?

can you post the fur pic???

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here is both render mental ray and maya software

mental ray:

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maya software,you can see its much better.but with maya software,the render wont look that real..or less than with mental ray.is there a way to improve the look of the fur rendered with mental ray.

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try upping the antialiasing in the MentalRay render thats should do it

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Carsten Lind
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Maya Software Manager & Maya Instructor
LEGO Systems A/S

I think its your samples....
open up the fur description in the attribute editor and go to the fur shape node under mental ray settings there is a min max samples.. its prolly at something like min 1 max 2... up the max samples to 3 or 4 and see what happens.. I bet it fixes it.

thanx caligraphics,it works fine.
thanx mayafreak even if it doesnt work

the method work fine but it takes a lot of time to render.i took about 2:24 to render stg nice but its still a littler worst than what maya software render.

quick render just to see how it looks like with a black color on him.

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wow, i love this gorilla, maybe you can do a whole body after this contest!:attn: :attn:
cheers
andy

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looking very good!

to increase the quality with MR try also
* change the Fileer in Multi-pixel Filtering to Mitchell or Lanczos
* lowering the Constrast Threshold to like 0.05 or 0.01

and of course if you use FG you have to have pretty good settings there too.

thanx a lot djblazer and joopson

djblazer,if i change the settings in mr as you said what is it going to do.

the fur experiments are cool to see, can't wait to see mr gorilla dressed

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thanx t1ck