about MR books
 

Driemeyer, T.
Rendering with mental ray®

Second, revised edition.2001

Can anyone told me if it,s a good book to begin and go further with MR

Its a very good book to go further.
But its a book dedicated to mental ray, host (says: Maya) specific iusses are not covered. Additionally you should have a rather solid background in rendering, as its written more like a reference, you won't find something like tutorials.

If you know what you want to know, then there is no better book available, a beginner would probably be overwhelmed.

txs
 

Txs
Do you know ,apart tutorials, if i could find a good book to begin with mental ray,even not specifically for maya?

If you understand german, http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASI...544559-6900002 is a good start, i don't know if there is something similar in english.

Alias Wave fronts DVD's
 

try aliaswavefront stores DVD on mental ray that is very good total everthing related maya mental ray

Mental Ray Techniques

that's really good One

enjoy...

I bought the DVD actually.

It did help some but it is not as clear as I thought and gives no specific of how to use MR in an animation scene.

Later

Thanks everybody