MR: HDRI Test

[jucaro]

here's what I got using MR+HDRI using only 1 skylight mapped with an HDRI map.

 

 

 

-GI disabled

-FG enabled at 500 samples

-No caustics

-All materials are arch mats.

 

render times: less than 4mins including calculations on a single processor 1.4 P4 256MB

[Fran]

HiJuan Carlos,

 

That's kind of neat. Have you tried using the shell modifier yet? You can apply it to the teapots so you don't see through the single wall construction.

[xgarcia]

Check 2-sided in your material.

[Victor Erthal]

Add some bump mapping or displacement to the tiles.

Nice image!

[jucaro]

I still havent learned how to put bump mapping in the arch mats becuase, like I've said in a previous post, its very lightscape-ish (there was no bump map in lightscape, was there?) But I think there's a way to circumvent this problem as the architectural materials is closely tied to the mental ray shader (I think this is descreet's way of telling(forcing) us to use mental ray.

 

On a lighter note, the mental ray shaders are really really flexible and extensible.

 

I'm going to try the MR displacements and other new toys in MAX6, but sadly for me, I have to wait because MAX6 is in my friend's office.

 

If only MAX6 did have the File-Link utility to warrant my wanting to upgrade.

 

I'll post some more test soon.