Tutorials - 3DS Max
Increasing Final Gather performance for very high resolution renders
A quick tip on the Autodesk MaxStation blog.
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Tue Oct 21, 2014
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Essential tips & tricks for V-Ray and Mental Ray
Archviz artist Jamie Cardoso has posted a number of tips for using with V-Ray and Mental Ray. More on Jamie Cardoso's website.
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Fri Sep 20, 2013
| source: Jamie Cardoso
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Setting Mental Ray’s thread priority in 3DS Max 2014
A quick tip on Håkan "Zap" Andersson's blog.
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Thu May 9, 2013
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Correcting V-Ray and Mental Ray self-illumination display in the viewport
A quick tip by Jamie Cardoso.
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Thu Dec 27, 2012
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8 interior lighting setups for Mental Ray
A tutorial by Nicaraguan artist Alejandro Chávez on how to set up Mental Ray for various interior lighting conditions. More on IDST-Render.com.
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Thu Dec 20, 2012
Tutorials - 3DS Max
Creating customized IES web lights
A tutorial by Jamie Cardoso on how to customize IES web lights for V-Ray or Mental Ray. More on Jamie Cardoso's website.
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Thu Dec 13, 2012
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Tutorials - 3DS Max
New tutorials from Xenomorphic
Pete Draper has released a collection of great tutorials he originally created for 3D World magazine. Tutorials include modeling, rendering using Mental Ray, creating snow using Pflow, and much more. You can view said tutorials, (roughly 5 hours worth of content), on Pete's Youtube channel.
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Fri Nov 30, 2012
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Network rendering vs. Mental Ray’s distributed bucket rendering
Autodesk's Chris Murray has written a blog post discussing alternatives he faced when tackling a very large render job using Mental Ray. More on Autodesk's Max Nation blog.
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Mon Sep 10, 2012
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Mental Ray caustics on matte surface
A tutorial by US artist Jeff Patton on adding caustics to the matte/shadow/reflection material in Mental Ray. More at Jeff Patton's blog.
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Thu Jul 26, 2012
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Mental Ray physical sky for architectural interiors
Jeff Patton explains how to properly setup a scene with the Mental Ray sun and sky system as well as using portals to illuminate an interior scene. Read the article at Jeff's blog.
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Thu Nov 3, 2011
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