Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
# 1 06-05-2004 , 04:30 PM
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Mental ray tutorial please

I know that aproximatly 100 people who would be interested in a Mental Ray Tutorial.
If you book it they will come user added image (WW)

Specifically aimed at intermediate/advanced user
Content
-How to setup custom mr shaders(MAYA_MRFM_SHOW_CUSTOM_SHADERS)
- Examples of where they can be used. (focus on this primarily)
-Attatched is a pic which will explain things a little better perhaps.
mentalray.jpg

-You could discuss things like the dirtmap shader
-or how to transfer displacement from zbrush 2 into maya and use mental ray
to render the displacement. (Its so cool) z2 rocks !!
-Raytraced shadows, shadowmaps, depthmap shadows

Movie Layout
-You could have one tutorial on how to set up a cornel box and
the lights and render diagnostics ... sampling quality , photons, translation ect
-Then have the second tutorial cover how to setup custom mr shaders and cover some off the principals of these shaders.
maya 6 has MR custom shaders installed as standard I am told.
-Then have a third and perhaps 4th tutorial to cover the other
materials or things like caustics perhaps...
If anyone can do this let me know and I will send all interested people
to this thread to voice their interest.

=Personally=
If simplymaya can produce a good tutorial/s giving usefull examples of where these 50+
shaders can be used it would do the job.
Not so hard is it ?? (jk)
Perhaps split them into 3 or 4 separate tutorials for 30 points each.

# 2 06-05-2004 , 07:21 PM
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Their a re many on the web, do a google search.

# 3 06-05-2004 , 11:13 PM
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The info I am looking for is not common knowledge and not something
you can find from a google search.

No need to search when you have https://www.learning-maya.com/rendering.php
and there is still precious little info on the mental ray shaders there which is a shame.

There are these as well
https://test.jzinfo.com/bssrdf.htm
https://www.impresszio.hu/szabolcs/Me...aySampling.htm
https://www.kiaran.net/tutorials.htm
https://www.motiondesign.biz/ (do not buy this video possible fraud)
https://www.drone.org/tutorials/displ...ps_mental.html
https://www.cgchannel.com/news/viewlastnews.jsp?catID=5

I am aware of how to render with hdri or glbal illum or caustics ect
this is a request for a tutorial on mental ray shaders


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