Digital Tutors - mental ray in Maya

Rendering Workflow
1. Introduction and project overview
 GI
 Light Bouncing
 Outdoor and indoor
 Final Gathering
 Image Based Lighting
 Caustic patterns and mental ray
 mental ray materials
 Realistic glass
 Realistic car paint
 Realistic skin
 Volumetrics, fog and smoke
 Create our own mental ray phenomenon shaders

2. Using Global Illumination (GI) and understanding how GI photons

work
 Secondary light bounces.
 Photons bounce and retain color.
 Realistic color bleeding.
 Maya to Mr.dll plugin

1. Select Light and set it to emit photons

2. Check Global Illumination in the render settings
3. Photon intensity depends of the size of the scene and light distance
4. GI is supposed to be used in conjunction with Final Gathering.
3. Understanding Final Gather and exploring Final Gather techniques
 Objects can emit light raising its Ambient Color Value beyond 1.
To reduce noise, raise number of rays.
4. Storing, reusing, and visualizing Final Gather maps