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Yesterday, 10:28

nuki started a thread only Backfaces visible in Render Passes in mental ray - Open Discussion

I'm experiencing a weird issue with my renderpasses atm, they all seem to perform visibility detection on the scenes backfaces globally. To...

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Yesterday, 10:09

nuki replied to a thread Unified Sampling per Object in mental ray - Open Discussion

well, that's good to know, thanks

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Yesterday, 07:09

Remydrh replied to a thread Unified Sampling per Object in mental ray - Open Discussion

Samples Per object does not work (and isn't exposed correctly) in any version of Maya. It's purposefully grayed out in Maya 2014 with Unified...

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May 24th, 2013, 23:38

maxt replied to a thread Mental ray satellite can't source textures from network drive? in mental ray - Maya

first try to get satellite to work with textures not on a network drive, then eventually keep in mind that when you access resources like textures...

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May 24th, 2013, 20:13

surreal-reality replied to a thread Mental ray satellite can't source textures from network drive? in mental ray - Maya

Firewalls are a negative. Nothing seems to be blocking the computers from talking to each other through any other medium. The same computers will...

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May 24th, 2013, 17:53

surreal-reality replied to a thread Mental ray satellite can't source textures from network drive? in mental ray - Maya

Thanks for the reply! I have not looked into it being a firewall thing specifically, but I will look into that possibility and update here with my...

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May 24th, 2013, 17:42

asianrage replied to a thread Mental ray satellite can't source textures from network drive? in mental ray - Maya

Are you rendering behind a firewall? I've encountered this issue before with satellites. I'm behind a very comprehensive and dense firewall. Our...

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May 24th, 2013, 17:25

jb_alvarado replied to a thread one-way mirror in mental ray - 3ds max

Thank you Thorsten and moulder6! I think your method work Thorsten, thank you! First I was thinking this last point from moulder6 with the falloff...

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May 24th, 2013, 15:35

thorsten hartmann replied to a thread one-way mirror in mental ray - 3ds max

Hi Jonathn, i think i have found a good way. I use the translucency Shader + Output Shader in cutout slot. demoscene here:...

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May 24th, 2013, 14:24

moulder6 replied to a thread one-way mirror in mental ray - 3ds max

How about using the double sided material?! One - 100% reflective and the other refractive/transparent - This is as simple as it gets ans you have...

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May 24th, 2013, 13:47

thorsten hartmann started a thread Cameron Street in mental ray - Gallery

hi Guys, here my first commercial Project with MILA. All Shadings based on MILA. The humans composite with Photoshop. This is the final image for...

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May 24th, 2013, 12:46

thorsten hartmann replied to a thread one-way mirror in mental ray - 3ds max

Hi jonathan, if you not animate the light position. Bake the Light in texture and use it as transparency map. You must use the Map from the...

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May 24th, 2013, 12:46

nuki started a thread Unified Sampling per Object in mental ray - Open Discussion

I'm using mr 3.10 in Maya2013 and try to create per object overrides together witn unified sampling. I have three spheres with the same material...

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May 24th, 2013, 11:19

jb_alvarado started a thread one-way mirror in mental ray - 3ds max

Hello All, I don't no the original name of this effect. I need a glass material what reflect like a mirror, but when a light behind that mirror...

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May 23rd, 2013, 20:36

hglr123 replied to a thread some Testrenders in Iray Gallery

Amazing renders! :)

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May 23rd, 2013, 19:50

Remydrh replied to a thread MILA beta download for Maya in mental ray - Maya

If you're approved (meaning you're marked as not-a-bot) look here: http://forum.nvidia-arc.com/showthread.php?12338-Layering-Library-Download

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May 23rd, 2013, 14:44

chursin started a thread Nonlinear light propagating in mr Shaders - Writing mental ray Shaders

Hallo all! I try to write a Shader which realize nonlinear light propagation. The idea is to trace along the curves, not the lines. I will divide...

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May 23rd, 2013, 14:26

garret replied to a thread some product renders with iRay in Iray Gallery

Dam those look really nice man. I haven't had a chance to mess around with iray much but the more I see thinks like this the more I want to go mess...

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May 23rd, 2013, 14:21

garret replied to a thread New fxphd class - MYA215 Production Quality Rendering in Maya with MentalRay in mental ray - Maya

Elemental ray is an awesome site thanks for showing it to us Jon. I had no idea that mr updated on its own I always thought it updated with the new...

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May 23rd, 2013, 13:48

shanemarks replied to a thread Diffuse Detail Noise in mr Shaders - Advanced

Yeah I guess I am being picky, if the camera moves it won't even be noticeable. Thank you for the feedback. I really appreciate it, it is hard to...

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May 23rd, 2013, 13:02

haggi started a thread Reading mi files in mental ray - Open Discussion

Hi, I'm trying to read mi files and recreate geometry from these. The normal ascii format should be not a too heavy problem but is there any...

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May 23rd, 2013, 12:39

Remydrh replied to a thread Diffuse Detail Noise in mr Shaders - Advanced

If your passes added together are fine then I wouldn't worry about it. (Meaning if the beauty is acceptable then you're probably good to go.) As...

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May 23rd, 2013, 11:26

kettemorales started a thread some Testrenders in Iray Gallery

it's really fascinating how easy it is to get nice results with only the standard material settings... here some test test renders: or ...

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May 23rd, 2013, 11:06

van_der_goes replied to a thread Unified Sampling and Compositing in mental ray - Open Discussion

Maybe my solution is naif, but you can assign a matte pass to your object and use it as the alpha.

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May 23rd, 2013, 10:36

shanemarks replied to a thread Diffuse Detail Noise in mr Shaders - Advanced

So I switched over to maya 2014 and tried out the new values. I was still getting noise in the diffuse detail... but I realised that my exposure...

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May 23rd, 2013, 09:34

jigu replied to a thread Unified sampling and photometric area lights and skyportal : shadow samples in mental ray - 3ds max

Thanks Moulder6! Yeah, that new merged file works now good. I am not sure what was causing problem, but scene was initially created in 2013 version...

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