mental ray materials

[vizwhiz]

Jeff

 

any MR info will be greatly appreciated

 

Randy

[nisus]

Wait, are you trying to use a Lume Glass as a map in a DGS? I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do that.

 

Why not?

 

To me it's simple: I use a lume glass in a DGS for nice opaque/frosted glass, and a raytrace material for normal glass (max8)... changing things in max9 of course!

 

nisus

[pixelperfectg]

Why not?

I mentioned one problem with that method in post #21.

 

Just make sure your disabling reflections on either the DGS or glass(lume) shader and not calculating reflections/refractions twice.

[nisus]

Hi Jeff,

 

euh... my question was retorical, bUt i didn't add that.

read your comment about disabling the reflections and have been doing that before ,-)

 

rgds,

 

nisus

[technitronik]

I've got to thank you guys. I've learned a ton through this discussion and exploring the materials here at home tonight. im having a blast and my renders are much improved. I will be posting some images for you to check out as i rebuild my model with these MR materials.

Hello

 

I don't know what computer you have. I've a PIV. Memory is not realy enough in my computer. Each time I must render with V-Ray, this is the horror. Enough time to make a ride in cycle around my city. Mental Ray is for me a better choice when I want like you something different, more fine than scanline. There are also many fine Raytrace material include with Max ( I have the 9.0 ).

 

I will "chock" all V-Ray fans but I use only V-Ray to be able to "open" downloaded models realized with it. Once the model is open, I replace all the HUNGRY OF MEMORY" V-Ray materials by other Mental Ray or Raytrace. The look is always very fine but the render time is multiply by 10...

 

Germain Caron