lighting Mental Ray lighting, using GI and FG

[Jelmer]

In this tutorial you'll learn how to make a realistic render using Mental Ray with Global Ilumination (GI) and Final Gather (FG), it's not about modeling the scene but only the light setup and adjusting that until we're satisfied, so get the scene here and start playing with it and use the video tutorial for help!

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size: 23mb length: 14:30min format: WMV, 800x600

[ekiimnueva]

hello everybody, im so glad to join with you and i hope this will be a great experience in exploring the amazing 3d graphics. im an art lover also but honestly im a late bloomer especially with computer related graphics. just 2 years ago when i started using computer aided designs in my art works like autocad, corel draw, adobe illustrator and adobe photoshop and its just very recent when decided to go into the 3d world. i now starting the basics of 3dmax and i hope this will the best place for me...

[envik]

hi i am basically looking for some senior render artist who can teach me and i llike increase my knowledge in 3ds max lighting and rendering .. hope this site will be a great help for the beginers ........................

[Jelmer]

envik, what do you exactly mean by that, have you tried the tutorials?

[suiside75]

hii....................

[CU441ES]

please.... If you are going to post please say something helpful, and i dont think hiiii............ is very helpful, do you?

[Motammad]

im having trouble with this one...
The sphere around the plane and those other elements doesnt get lit... I flipped it but it is still black where the light doesnt seem to reach... i mean the sphere is pitch black behind the mr Area Spot light... and i tweaked all of those (i hope i did) GI and whatnot thingies and the "Sky"(the sphere) is still black...
well i might leave it this way because it looks like a night scene but thats not what i want...

[holyinferno]

Thanks for the tutorial mister jelmer... I Have been using Vray from a long time but ,
Im really looking into mental ray these days.... its an awesome renderer and the results are very satisfying. Good effort with the tutorial and thumb up !

[shikododo11]

thanks man

[rinki]

just getting started