Shaders, Phenomena, Scripts

[bart]

Post links to useful shaders, phenomena, scripts

Consider adding a note on how you've used them.

[Puppet]

shaders_p - some usefull shaders with open source code:
http://www.puppet.cgtalk.ru/download/shaders_p_e.shtml

p_MegaTK - surface shader for slit out many passes for one render:
http://www.puppet.cgtalk.ru/download/megatk_e.shtml

Mel script that create GUI for rendering with Mental Ray Stand Alone from Maya:
http://www.puppet.cgtalk.ru/download/m2mr_e.shtml

My compilation version of mrClasses v.0.1.7 by Gonzalo Garramuno:
http://www.puppet.cgtalk.ru/download/mrclasses_e.shtml
You may find original source here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrclasses/

My compilation version of mrLiquid v.0.6.5 by Gonzalo Garramuno:
http://www.puppet.cgtalk.ru/download/mrliquid_e.shtml
You may find original source here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrliquid/

[Pixero]

For those who dont know already.
I have some MR shaders in the download section of my site.
http://www.pixero.com

Jan

[bart]

Tim Leydecker made a list of useful shaders and posted it to the mentalray mailing list. From that list, Pixero(JS) and Puppet have already posted above. And I've got a special blog topic for Paolo Berto. The others were:

L_glass:
http://home.broadpark.no/~rslettli/mentalray.html

HDR_envmap rendering:
http://www.vi-motion.de/latlong_Tutorial/

Jeremy Pronk - toLight, ...
http://www.thereisnoluck.com/

Ctrl_buffers:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t= ... ge=1&pp=15

Binary Alchemy BA shaders, volume shader:
http://www.binaryalchemy.de/index_dev.htm
http://www.pixero.com/files/BA_Shader_C ... n_11.2.zip (Maya)

Guy Rabiller / Horvatth Szabolcs - 2D motionblur vector pass, plus more:
http://www.alamaison.fr/3d/lm_2DMV/lm_2DMV_ref.htm
http://www.impresszio.hu/szabolcs/Menta ... aFiles.htm
http://www.impresszio.hu/szabolcs/

Daniel Rind - Dirtmapshader / Diffusion / ...
http://animus.brinkster.net/index.html >>stuff

Andy Hayes - Tranvol
http://www.andymator.co.uk/ (down?)
http://www.impresszio.hu/szabolcs/Menta ... aFiles.htm

Gonzalo Garramuno - rendering masterclasses:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mrclasses/
http://www.pixero.com/files/gg_mray_shaders_v0.1.6.zip (Maya)

[Tim Leydecker]

Hey Bart,

http://www.lightengine3d.com

has it´s raydiffuse shader made available
free to use for Maya and mR. Version 6 up.
.................................................. ....

Ctrl.studios ( francescaluce), who also created
the ctrl_buffers pack, provides a shader/scriptpack
for custom arealight shapes. Detailed information here:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t= ... ge=1&pp=15


Cheers

tim

[Puppet]

New mel for baking with mental ray stand alone.
http://www.puppet.cgtalk.ru/download/b2mr_e.shtml

P.S. for win only

[ashretalalck]

Hi all my first shader

http://http://retallack.org.uk/ashle....ArInstObj

It's a instance and material replacer (mainly to solve problems with mayatomr).

Enjoy.

(edit: the mi file now has a unique nodeid on it)