Книги по Mental Ray

Realize your vision with stunning renders of your 3ds Max projects that can only be achieved with a powerful engine like mental ray. Beginning with a concise review of the essential concepts, you proceed to step-by-step tutorials that teach you how to render scenes with indirect light or with specific effects, such as depth of field and motion blur. Contour line shading and various other mental ray features are presented in detail, then you learn how to use the different light types of 3ds Max inside mental ray and how to use mental ray's own specific area lights and its new daylight system. Finally, the book reviews mental ray-specific materials and what effects can be obtained by using most of the specific mental ray shaders.

Key Features:

* Color reproductions illustrate a wide array of subtle techniques.

* Contains never-before-published information about how shaders work

* Companion CD-ROM includes tutorial project files

Reviews

Put yourself on a path to productivity with Joep's deliberate approach to a logical workflow. Enjoy the exercises and the satisfaction you get from producing cost effective renderings and a foundation of knowledge that you can apply to your work.

Ted Boardman,

Author and Instructor

'A solid foundation. with thorough explanations, practical examples, and lots of pictures. Each chapter provides a clear set of objectives and insightful production tips.'

Steven D. Papke,President, Vizdepot.com

Contents

Important information before we get started, Switching on Mental ray, mental ray render scene dialog Panels; Mental ray and lights, Introduction, mental ray renderer specific light options and Rollouts; mental ray with materials and Shaders, Introduction, Mental ray and standard materials, Mental ray and Architectural materials, Mental ray and mental ray materials, mental ray and mental ray Shaders

Turn 3D models into film-worthy digital animations by mastering mental ray rendering once and for all. This must-have guide is the only book on the market to focus exclusively on mental ray in Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI, and it's packed with techniques and insights you can't get anywhere else. Best of all, the book's advanced rendering concepts apply to other rendering software as well, including V-Ray, Brazil, Maxwell and RenderMan. Discover advanced lighting, camera, and workflow techniques that usually take professionals years to figure out.

Third, revised edition (with cd-rom)

Springer Verlag Wien New York

mental ray is the leading rendering engine for generating photorealistic images, built into many 3D graphics applications. This book, written by the mental ray software project leader, gives a general introduction into rendering with mental ray, as well as step-by-step recipes for creating advanced effects, and tips and tricks for professional users. A comprehensive definition of mental ray's scene description language and the standard shader libraries is included and used as the basis for all examples.

This third, revised edition was extended to cover the new generation of mental ray, version 3.4, throughout the book.

Bring new realism to your visualizations with a command of the 3ds Max toolset. Three step-by-step tutorials demonstrate exterior and interior, day and night lighting scenes. You learn the nuts and bolts of importing models from CAD programs, lighting, applying mr shaders and materials, and optimizing your renders. Mental ray is made simple with an accessible description of its tools.

* Color reproductions illustrate a wide array of subtle techniques.

* mental ray is made easy with accesible demonstations.

* Companion CD contains all of the project files.

Contents

Introduction, Section 1; Setting up the scene for "Ecological Harbour", Lighting, Applying shaders and materials on a completely new scene with no lights, Bringing the final scene together, Introducing the Night (lume) shader. Section 2: Setting up the scene for "The Living Room" day light: Lighting, Applying shaders and materials on a completely new scene with no lights, Bringing the final scene together. Section 3: Setting up the scene for "The Living Room" night scene: Lighting, Applying shaders and materials on a completely new scene with no lights, Bringing the final scene together, The Glow (lume) shader for interior lighting, Conclusion and Further Study, Appendix A ? Importing Models