3DS Max Tutorial – Mental Ray

for your building Set up cameras by which the building can be viewed Create animations for walk-throughs or fly-throughs by moving the cameras, or animate objects in the scene. Autodesk 3ds Max Design uses the “mental ray” rendering engine which can generate reflections, refractions and shadows by ray tracing. Ray tracing traces the path of light rays sampled from the light source. Reflections and refractions generated this way are…

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3DS Max and Mental Ray – Realistic Caustic

with transparent or translucent materials, glossy materials, liquids and others, achieving realistic lighting can be a bit tougher. The key to working with lighting for these types of materials is caustics. Caustics is light rays being reflected or refracted through a material, creating a focused light ray on the other side of the material. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to achieve simple yet realistic caustics in 3D Studio Max. Follow tuto…

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Mental Ray Indoor Lighting

Mental ray is a rendering software which generates images of outstanding quality and unsurpassed realism. It combines the physically correct simulation of the behavior of light with full programmability for the creation of any imaginable visual phenomena. The software uses advanced and proprietary acceleration and sampling techniques for faster rendering on even the smallest, single processor machines. At the same time, mental ray achieves optim…

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VRay-Like Interior Renders with Mental Ray

Contents : Rendering and Setting, Lighting with IBL, Vray for Maya, Render Test with Exterior Lighting, Render-Test (Teapot Room) and Path Material, Area Light Setting and Hint about Post Work, Explanation about: Mental Ray Shaders andRender Global Settings, Render Test (Teapot Room), Settings and Scene File, Advantages of Render in Passes, Rendering with FG + AO, Render Test and Usage of dirtmap in a mix 20 layer shading network, Hints about ph…

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3D Interior Design with Maya

This tutorial shows you how to make 3d interiors using Autodesk Maya and rendering with mental ray. 3d tutorial is quite simple and very easy to follow even for beginners. You can use this 3D interior tutorial as a reference starting point in making other complex interior 3d. For those of you who use software other than Maya, you can follow this tutorial with a few adjustments with the 3d software that you can always use. Enjoy this Maya 3D Inte…

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