4. Lighting in mental ray

4.1. mental ray Basics


• mental ray for Maya offers photorealistic rendering with industrial strength features (mental image gmbh)
• mental ray has often to be loaded manually:
  Window --> Settings/Preferences --> Plug-in Manager -->
  Mayatomr.bundle 1
• Settings can be performed at Window --> Rendering Editors --> Render Settings
• Common: Related to Image Sequences (size, name, resolution, frames etc) 1
• Passes: Organizing Render Passes, Render Layer and Contribution Maps 2
• Features: Handles the mental ray lighting features like Raytracing, Ambient Occlusion and others 3
• Quality: Handels the Quality, most of all the Sampling Quality 4
• Indirect Lighting: Handels the parameters of the Indirect Lighting Features 5
• Options: Mostly for Diagnose features 6

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