T0428B - Digital Tutors Introduction to Mental Ray in Maya 2009

Start seeing better results. Learn practical workflows to simulating physically accurate lighting and rendering various surface types and gain a comprehensive overview of the high performance tools and new features of mental ray in Maya 2009. Contains nearly 4 hours of project-based training and step-by-step recipes for new artists.Popular highlights include:

• Overview of mental ray


• Global Illumination


• Emitting GI Photons from Light Sources


• Photon Energy and Decay Parameters


• Final Gather


• Controlling Final Gather Accuracy


• Adding Secondary Final Gather Bounces


• Mixing Final Gather and Global Illumination


• Saving and Reusing Lighting Data


• Importons


• Irradiance Particles


• Portal Lights


• Image-based Lighting


• HDR Exposure Controls


• Caustics


• Emitting Caustic Photons from Lights


• Subsurface Scattering Shader


• Ambient Occlusion Shader


• mental ray Architectural Materials


• Render Passes for Multi-pass Rendering


• Creating Pass Contribution Maps

Lesson Outline:

1.	Introduction and Project Overview	1:51
2.	Render Settings changes in Maya 2009	2:10
3.	Using Global Illumination	14:17
4.	Using Final Gather	16:05
5.	Using Global Illumination and Final Gather together	5:51
6.	Saving and reusing indirect lighting information	12:15
7.	Image-based lighting using mental ray IBL	12:17
8.	Alternative workflow for image-based lighting	11:52
9.	Simulating caustic light patterns	14:56
10.	Working with mental ray architectural materials	15:09
11.	Using mental ray photonic materials	8:13
12.	Exploring displacement approximations	14:08
13.	Overview of Subsurface Scattering	15:32
14.	Incorporating Physical Sun and Sky shaders	6:39
15.	Utilizing Portal Lights	9:16
16.	Overview of Render Layers	11:44
17.	Understanding Render Passes	11:47
18.	Setting up pass Contribution Maps	7:40
19.	Using Importons and Irradiance Particles	19:10
20.	Utilizing photographic exposure controls	13:31
	Total Run Time:	3:44:32