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Global Illumination with Mental Ray for Maya

Quick tutorials for lighting a simple scene

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Interior Lighting

This tutorial will introduce you to techniques for lighting interior spaces in Maya. For this excercise you will primarily be learning how to manipulate area lights.

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Global Illumination in Maya (with MentalRay)

This tut shows you how to use the global illumination and final gathering in mentalray for maya. The tutorial has four examples. It will show you how to set the illumination for indoor and outdoor scenes, and how to use HDRI images as illumination source.

Rated: with 13274 hits  Added on: Apr 19, 2006

HDRI lighting with mentalray for maya

Quick tutorial for hdri lighting a scene with mental ray for maya

Rated: with 11925 hits  Added on: Mar 31, 2006

HDRI Rendering Techniques - Maya

introduced the concept and techniques of rendering with HDRI images in Maya MentalRay environment.

Rated: with 8742 hits  Added on: Mar 10, 2007

Diamond Caustics

Rendering a diamond as photo-realistically as possible is a 3D challenge. Light doesn’t just bounce off an object; it enters it, bends, changes color, bounces back and looses intensity. To achieve all this requires the use of Caustics to handle this refraction of light as it passes through a diamond and onto its supporting surface.

Rated: with 7587 hits  Added on: Apr 25, 2006

Compositing Backlighting

First of all, the composition will need an alpha channel or a key. Since Hank was done in 3D, the raw untouched render and the alpha channel are easily separated by rendering with an alpha (RGBA).

Rated: with 7204 hits  Added on: Feb 05, 2006

HDR enviroment map

Create your own HDR environment map in Maya/mental ray for image based lighting

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Light Linking using 3 point lighting

Light linking is the art of using multiple lights to create the illusion of one. Author normally start with a three point lighting scheme and then add lights were needed. Linking a light to an object or objects will allow you to control what that light affects. This sounds complex but will make more sense as we get into it later.

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Ambient Occlusion Pass Guide

In this tutorial I will try to cover everything you need to know about occlusion pass in 3 simplified parts.

Rated: with 5974 hits  Added on: Mar 25, 2007

How to bake shadows in Maya

Well, here is a little tutorial on how to bake shadows at the same time you convert your shaders into solid texture files. This can be pretty useful for gamers (low poly modeling and thirsty of quick texture mapping including... shadows)

Rated: with 5919 hits  Added on: Feb 05, 2006

Using Caustics in MentalRay for Maya

My second tutorial, again about rendering in mentalray for maya. It explains the proces of setting up the caustics effect in maya, and it is made for beginners and intermediate users. Tutorial explains caustics step by step trough three examples, and with lot of pictures.

Rated: with 5907 hits  Added on: Apr 19, 2006

Maya to Lightscape

With more and more powerful processors becoming available to the average user at affordable prices, radiosity solutions are becoming increasingly popular. Maya, however, does not have a radiosity engine. This tutorial shows how to use Lightscape to render and manipulate a scene modeled in Maya…with a little help from 3D Studio Max.

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Ambient Occlusion in Maya8 and Photoshop

This tutorial covers the basics of how to setup and bake ambient occlusion maps in Maya 8 with a focus on game-art.

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Photon Illumination of DGS Materials in Mental Ray for Maya

This tutorial explains about Photon Illumination of DGS Materials in Mental Ray for Maya. DGS materials are used to simulate materials with physical accuracy.

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Desk Lamp using Fog, Decay Regions and Intensity Curves

In this tutorial, we will make a desk lamp using Light Intensity Curves, Light Fog, Double-Sided Shading and Shader Glow.

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Making a candle flame

Making a candle using transparent materials.

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Faking Global Illumination

This handout will explain how to use point lights to light a scene and give it the same look as using global illumination

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Matrix like particle

Pseudo matrix efect. Using Maya parcile system.

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The Egg and The Fog

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to crack an egg and have light beams coming out of the cracks.

Rated: with 4781 hits  Added on: Feb 05, 2006