T0403 - Digital Tutors - Mental Ray Tips

Learn an array of creative tips and tricks to rendering and time-saving mental ray techniques that can be used for Product Design, Film, Games, and Commercials. Contains 2 hours of project-based training - Perfect for intermediate artists maximizing time and creativity.Popular highlights include:

• Storing / Reusing Global Illumination Photon Maps


• Storing / Reusing Final Gather Maps


• BSP Diagnostics


• mental ray Render Diagnostics


• Render Layers


• Layer Overrides


• Custom MEL Scripts for Attribute Adjustment


• Converting to .MAP format


• Controlling Final Gather Light Intensity


• Compositing Render Layers in External Applications


• Depth Passes for Depth-of-Field Effects


• Motion Vector Passes


• Optimizing mental ray Memory Usage

Lesson Outline:

1.	Introduction and project overview	1:44
2.	Storing and reusing Global Illumination Photon maps to increase rendering speed	8:48
3.	Storing and reusing Final Gather maps to increase rendering speed	10:06
4.	Using BSP Diagnose in order to increase mental ray's render performance	9:25
5.	Setting limits on mental ray's memory usage as a way of improving rendering stability	4:23
6.	Using the mental ray Render Diagnostics to pinpoint potential rendering complications in your scene	10:02
7.	Using Render Layers to break your renders up into multiple passes - giving you a much higher level of control over the final render	14:12
8.	Using Maya's Layer Overrides to enable or disable attributes on individual Render Layers	9:37
9.	Using a custom MEL script to alter special attributes across multiple selected objects	9:34
10.	Compositing separate Render Layers together into a final image	12:38
11.	Using a depth pass to very quickly create depth-of-field effects in your final renders	9:39
12.	Creating a Motion Vector pass in order to create very fast motion-blurring effects to your rendered shots	9:02
13.	Utilizing stored Motion Vector information within Maya to add very fast motion-blurring to your rendered images	14:36
14.	Using the Final Gather Render Mode to quickly cast and store Final Gather point information	13:23
	Total Run Time:	2:17:06