Mental Ray and Glow Effect

Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2

This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with complex objects.

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# 1 31-10-2003 , 07:11 PM

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Does anyone know how to make the glow effect on a shader work with MR? Does mental ray even support this effect. I.E. I have a model with some faces that I have applied a glow effect
to. It shows up fine in Maya Software render but in MR it only shows the material color on the faces not the glow. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

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# 2 31-10-2003 , 09:44 PM

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MR does not support Glow effects. though, an alternative is to program mental ray to glow for you. that is a hard one though.

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you can use contour shaders in the MR customr shaders to achieve this

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# 4 02-11-2003 , 11:00 PM

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roach, you know of any links on how to do that?

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# 5 03-11-2003 , 05:14 PM

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I have attached a small pdf on this. I really hope it helps.

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# 6 03-11-2003 , 06:15 PM

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thats a Bad pdf roach. can you check it please.

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# 7 03-11-2003 , 06:21 PM

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thanks for the PDF! It asks me to use login. Any ideas?

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# 8 03-11-2003 , 06:23 PM

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working on it.

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# 9 03-11-2003 , 06:25 PM

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thanks. Ill be watching for an update

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# 10 03-11-2003 , 06:25 PM

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try this

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# 11 03-11-2003 , 06:27 PM

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that works! Thank you!

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# 12 04-11-2003 , 05:42 AM

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this is the best result i've gotten for glow with MR maya. Its actually a comp of MR for the scene and maya software for the lightning and glow effect. there are many possibilities with the comp technique. IMHO i dont like the toon shader glow. I cant get it to look real.

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