mental ray in Maya: Rendering Workflow provides over 3 hours of lessons designed to increase your productivity with time-saving techniques and workflow. Highlights from popular topics include: detailed overview of mental ray materials, global illumination, emitting global illumination photons from lights, photon falloff, intensity, and count, final gather, methods of controlling final gather light intensity, multi-bounce final gather rays, mixing final gather/global illumination effects, image-based lighting (HDR), creating HDR images, methods of setting up HDR lighting, caustics, emitting caustic photons from lights, caustic accuracy, caustic filtering types, sub-surface scattering, utilizing MR_fast_skin shader, ambient occlusion, light baking, HDR light baking, dielectric, DGS, sub-d/displacement approximation nodes, participating media, phenomena, passes, rendering features of Maya Unlimited, rendering Paint Effects,, and additional lessons developed to teach artists rendering techniques and workflow in mental ray.

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