Soft Shadows With Mental Ray Renderer
In this 3DS-Max tutorial I am going to show you how to get soft shadows with the mental ray Renderer. |
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Mental Ray Sun
This tutorial is geared towards showing you how to use the Mental Ray renderer to create really good lighting and skies. First thing we need to do, before we begin, is set Mental Ray as the Rendering engine.
Neon Glow Texture
A quick 3DS Max / Mental Ray tutorial that will help you create a neon glow texture. You'll learn to use the mental ray material and the Glow (Lume) map. The resulting textures will be procedurally generated and will only require 3DS Max and the included Mental Ray renderer.
Simulating Global/Indirect Illumination with Mental Ray
Mental ray, a product of the Mental images, Inc, is the first rendering engine, which simulates the physically correction of the real light and reaction of surfaces to light. Together with Renderman, by PIXAR, mental ray is recognized as an industry-standard rendering software; and has been a major contribution to world-wide design visualization and feature film, including Oscar-awarded.
Exterior Render - Mental Ray Render
This is a tutorial how to make a exterior lightning and render with mental ray . This scene was modeled in 3D max 7 and rendered with mental ray 3.4, the unit is in meter
Creating caustics
This tutorial will guide you on how to create a good caustic effect using the mental ray 3.2 renderer in-built to 3d studio max 6 and hopefully explain a little about the effects of each settings. A little knowledge of the program interface is helpful however this tutorial can be tackled by a complete beginner.
Mental Ray Proxy
In this 3ds max video tutoail you will learn how to use Mental ray proxy to decrease your rendering time and enhance your work in large scene with instanced objects or highpoly models.
Interior Lighting by using Mental Ray
This video tutorial is created in 3ds max by using Mental Ray. In this 12 minutes video tutorial (without sound) will explain you how to use Sunlight, Skylight in the daylight interior scene and render through mental ray. After rendering in 3ds max color correction in Photoshop. In the end of the tutorial will give you some notes which will help you in achieving realistic results in future projects. Overall, this is very informative tutorial which will explain you everything without a sound.
G.I Rendering Techniques
Model presentation is a crucial step for every artist when building their portfolio. In this tutorial you'll learn few techniques for creating a global illumination or "clay" render using 3Ds Max and it's 3 common render engines the scanline renderer, Mental Ray and finally V Ray. You'll also look at implementing additional lights, adding color variation, removing noise, and how to add image based lighting using HDRI images.
How to Use Mental Ray With Caustics
In this tutorial I will show you how to create realistic looking glass with mental ray and caustics.
Caustics through Mental Ray
Caustics are really great light effects that you can observe in liquids, glass objects and gems. We are able to simulate this effect with 3D Studio Max perfectly. This tutorial about Caustics will work only if you enable "Mental Ray”!
Calculate GI through Vray, Mental Ray and Brazil
In this video tutorial you will learn how to acheive a realistic effects through Global Illumination and how to calculate through most widely used renders i.e Mental Ray, Vray.
Mental ray rendering
Get the basic idea of mental ray rendering in 3ds max.
Rendering with mental ray in 3ds Max 2010
In this video learn how to combine two of mental ray’s most powerful features, Global Illumination and Final Gather. Discover how to use these two indirect illumination algorithms together in order to render photo-realistic images fast and easy.
Rendering wireframe in V-Ray and Mental Ray
Many of the 3d-artists at least once faced the need or desire to make the wireframe rendering. And they asked questions like: How to render wireframe in V-Ray or Mental Ray? How to perform the isoline render? How to make a shaded mesh rendering? How make a post production to a wireframe rendering? These are the questions this tutorial will answer and will show the easy and usable ways of creating model's mesh renderings.
Architectural Visualization: Living Room: Rendering in mental ray
I decided to write a little article about how I created my interiors. We will look thought the process of rendering one of my last works with super lighting and gorgeous composition that I made in mental ray: “Living Room”
Best V-Ray settings - Indirect illumination
Hello! We are pleased to share with you a new portion of 3d stuff. Continuing the theme of the correct configuration of V-Ray renderer, in this and the following three tutorials, we look into the second important part of V-Ray settings, the Indirect illumination.
To understand the setups of indirect illumination in V-Ray and any other render engine it is worth to find out what is indirect illumination, and why it is important to photo-realistic rendering.
Rendering a Toy Plane with Mental Ray
This tutorial is going to focus on creating a material for a toy plane, and will also look at setting up the lights and preparing the scene for rendering. The little toy plane featured here was modeled by my friend as an excuse to introduce some of the mental ray techniques in 3ds Max.
Neon material effect in Mental Ray
In this tutorial I will show you how to make a neon material/effect in 3DS Max , Mental Ray.
Mental Ray GI
3ds Max Mental Ray Global Illumination Tutorial.its a simple and quick tutorial and settings used for final gather or global illumination are for quick render not for high details you can change some settings to get more realistic detail and effect
Creating a Realistic Looking Object Using V-Ray
This tutorial will teach you how to create a realistic looking object using V-Ray which is a very popular renderer that is widely used in the making of movies and videogames.
Car Paint Rendering with Max 6.0 and Mental Ray
This tutorial will teach you how to create Car Paint Rendering using 3ds max 6.0 and mental ray.
Universal settings for V-Ray interior rendering
In this tutorial, we will look into the one of the fundamental and, probably, the most controversial and frequently raised subjects in the 3d rendering. It is the rendering engine setup. We will setup the V-Ray renderer for 3ds Max.
What are the best universal settings for V-Ray interior rendering?
How to setup Vray for good exterior renderings?
What is the optimal settings combination for quality V-Ray product visualization?
How to make the basic start AA settings setup for Vray render?
Illumination Tutorial for Industrial/ Product/ Furniture Design
This tutorial explains all steps to illuminate an object with a technique which simulates the illumination techniques of a photo studio. Before we begin it is very important to inform you that we will use "Mental Ray" as render engine (version 8 and 9 of 3D Studio Max). Mental Ray is a very stable render engine and it allows you to have very realistic renderings.
3d Max 2008 Mental ray exterior light & render setup tutorial
In this video tutorial of www.renderray.com, we will work on the Exterior Light setup, Render settings & HDRI, Environment Effects And Mental Ray Photographic Exposure Control setup to make a realistic and professional render.
Ambient Occlusion with Alpha
This tutorial is for all my 3d artist friends out there & it’s all about using ambient occlusion in 3ds max with the help of just mental ray. Ambient occlusion is a widely used pass in industry level these days. There are many different ways to do this, but as per my experience with bigger scenes generally people facing lots of problems for eg. Crashing of scenes, alphas not generated properly for plants or any opaque objects or else which plug‐in to use & how? Lately I came across a better & crash proof technique using mental ray.
Lighting and Shadow Basics - Part 2
Area lights cause specular scattering on objects and blend with its diffuse area, creating a very soft look with beautiful soft shadows.
Mental ray barstool model
Here I will teach you how to model a mental ray barstool.
Soft shadows
The purpose of this tutorial is to show you how to create a simple light setup that simulates the shadow part of global illumination and casts nice shadows on a plane for web graphics.
Using HDRI Maps with VRay and 3ds Max
For most of my rendering work, I use 3ds max 8 and V-Ray 1.5. Although Mental Ray, Brazil, and finalRender all support rendering with HDRIs, I have found V-Ray to be the most intuitive and manageable. However, I will be writing tutorials in the future regarding the use of HDRIs with all the major rendering engines.
Glowing Matial with Mental ray
Glowing materials are very useful to create light effects. For example a neon-light effect. This kind of material is a light-emitting material. It will create light and shadows like an Omni Ligh