mental ray animation-final gather

[sstamfb]

Hi all,

i'm doing an animation in mental ray and i would like to ask,if it is necessary for every frame to be calculated the final gather. By this way the procedure needs a lot of time. is there any way, final gather, to be calculated only once?

[Jennifer]

Yes. You can Save the Final Gather, and then Freeze it for re-use without recalculation. See my documents at:

 

http://www.max3ds.com/Download/mental_ray_101.pdf

 

http://www.max3ds.com/Download/mental_ray_102.pdf

 

The 101 document covers the Final Gather tools.

 

You cannot use this method if you animate objects or lighting during your animation, as that would change the FG solution.

 

Good luck!

[sstamfb]

Hi Jennifer,

thank you very much for your help. The pdf seems to be very useful. I will try the way that you suggest and i will send you my results.

 

thanks !

 

stam

[Tommy Burns]

Yes Jenny those pdf's where very helpful thanks

Would love to see the new ones that you are going to do.

Where would I find the new tutorials when they are finished

do you put them on a website if so what is the link?

 

Once again thanks very helpful!!

[Jennifer]

Thanks, I appreciate that.

 

The site http://www.max3ds.com is the site for the Chicago area Autodesk Animation User's Group, and I post those in the Forums under Meeting demo Notes. I'l update the 102 document for the new lights in max once that is released, and get something on GI and the A&D materials as soon as I have a chance.

 

Have a fun day!