Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 1
This course will look at the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. We'll look at what makes a good model in Maya and why objects are modeled in the way they are.
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Gone Mental!
heres the first (succesful) render
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The mental ray renderer, gives you the ability to use FinalGather, GlobalIllumination, Caustics and ordinary raytrace renderings.
FG (final gather) is a way to calculate the light in a scene, where every surface becomes a source of light, as the light is reflected and bounces off surfaces everywhere.
Gl is a way to send out a given amount of photons which light up the surface, wherever the photon hits it. Using GI alone may produce some artifacts as the number of photons may be insufficient to get into all those corners and such.
FG and GI can be combined. I have yet to try this.
Caustics, well I don't know much about it, but I guess it is a way to calculate how light passes through materials such as glass for instance, and then how it scatters onto other surfaces beyond the glass.
I cannot tell if mental ray is any better or worse than the next renderer, neither in quality or speed.
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received, thanx for comments, UndSeth- blue, green, pink yellow, didnt really matter it was just an attempt at the HDRI reflection Which apparently i've done wrong says BabyDuck- i thought i was to just map the image spherically onto the poly half sphere???, it's attached to the ambient and color node (how can ya tell its wrong?), as for the shadows... i havent quite got the hang of that yet so i left em 'simple'
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