Global Illumination?

[Ayame]

Hello everyone.

 

Im just wandering about how to achieve Global Illumination in Maya without the use of Mental ray renderer coz I have to wait for a night or so just to preview my work especially on my animations. If someone knows please help me.

[mbeshir]

Hi,

 

Global Illumination, Caustics and Final Gathering are only achievable through Mental Ray in Maya. The standard renderer can only do depth map and Ray Tracing, but it's much faster.

 

Depending on your scene, there are tricks to work in Mental Ray that would significantly improve your performance without noticeable drop in quality.. It's a deep topic invloving reducing geometry, baking lights, reusing or caching textures etc.. if you're already there, then look into Mental Ray custom shaders, and defnitely get the Maya 5 rendering book from Alias.. it's a good starting point.

[Ayame]

Thanks a lot there.

 

But is there a good site you can recommend

or maybe some tutorials that delve into these kind of techniques.

You see I always use software renderer than Mental Ray Renderer and have a little knowledge about it.

i hope u guys can help m.

thanx.