Vehicle Rendering Video Tutorial in 3ds max 2009 : MentalRay

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Gnomonology has released a NEW Video Tutorial of Mental Ray Rendering using 3ds max 2009. In this video Jeff Patton takes an in-depth look at how to create a realistic render of a vehicle in 3DS Max using Mental Ray. Jeff walks you through the process step by step and provides a solid foundation for you to be able to create your own renders and understand Mental Ray. Specifically, Jeff covers the following items: Arch and Design Materials, Metallic Flake Paint Materials, Using a 3 Point Lighting Setup, Photographic Exposure Controls, Kelvin Controls, Texturing, The New Composite Map in 3DS Max 2009.

Mental Ray Car Rendering

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Joe Gunn from New York has released a commercial Mental Ray Car Rendering Video Tutorial. You can download the Video Online after purchase so you donot wait for the DVD. The Mental Ray Video Tutorial covers various aspects of Mental ray such as
- Customizing the UI & Resources/Scripts
- Environment setup
- Basic Car Shader tool-kit
- Studio Lighting Setup
- Bounce cards/reflectors
- mental ray render settings & mr Photographic Exposure Control

MentalRay 3.7 Renderer Released

Mental Images has released its new version of MentalRay 3.7 Rendering Engine compatible with Maya at the moment but soon shall be integrated with the new 3ds max version. The new version MentalRay 3.7 ‘ renderer supports irradiance particle, motion-dependent displacement (displacement details are reduced as motion becomes more extreme resulting in faster render times), improved displacement maps with render time adaptively-tessellated subdivision surfaces, enhancements for combining multiple volume shaders in a scene and better support for OpenEXR.

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Mental Ray Rendering : CAR Headlight Tutorial

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Well I came across this excellent Mental Ray Render Image and for a moment I thought it was a picture while searching through google images and found out that it was a rendering. Its a "WOW" quality Mental Ray render and I think some of might you have already refered..but for the once who have not gone through..I suggest you go through the tricks involved and maybe you can learn something from this Mental Ray Tutorial. The MR tutorial also shows you some tricks invoved in the Mental Ray Texturing where bump maps are made in Photoshop…I recommened the MR users to go through..

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