T0402 - Digital Tutors - Mental ray in XSI

Learn the fundamentals of mental ray and begin adding visual richness to your work with 3 hours of project-driven training. Ideal for beginner to intermediate users.Includes a free trial of SOFTIMAGE|XSI v.5 Foundation!

Popular highlights include:

• Global Illumination


• Final Gathering


• Photon Emission


• Render Speed Optimization


• HDR Lighting


• Caustics


• Subsurface Scattering


• Realistic Skin Effects


• Cartoon-style Rendering


• Depth of Field


• Render Map


• Lighting and Shading Nodes


• Render Tree

Lesson Outline:

1.	Introduction and project overview	2:27
2.	Simulating indirect lighting and color bouncing with Global Illumination	11:07
3.	Final Gather (part 1): simulating highly realistic soft shadows and indirect lighting without having to cast photons into the scene	13:02
4.	Final Gather (part 2): looking at advanced options and techniques for saving render time	7:24
5.	Combining Global Illumination and Final Gather	5:57
6.	Image Based Lighting	11:46
7.	Using Caustics to simulate the way light refracts through transparent objects and casts a pattern of light onto the floor	15:40
8.	Using Environmental Shaders to create a very fast reflected environment, or as an alternative to the light dome when using .HDR images	5:52
9.	Using Ambient Occlusion Node, which can produce soft indirect shadows similar to Final Gather, but without the added render time	10:06
10.	Render Map (part 1): baking color, bump, and lighting information into a single image map	8:56
11.	Render Map (part 2): optimizing render map to work correctly with scenes that use Final Gather or Image Based Lighting	9:58
12.	Using Subsurface Scattering node	7:23
13.	Toon Rendering	13:49
14.	Using Depth of Field to add more realism and distance to the rendered images	7:10
15.	Using the Shader Wizard to build the necessary project files and templates for coding and integrating your own shaders	8:02
16.	Coding Your Own Shaders	8:37
	Total Run Time:	2:30:00