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

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