lighting neon (or lightsaber), using Mental Ray

[Jelmer]

In this tutorial we'll use the Mental Ray renderer with special shaders to make objects glow, but the objects are also illuminating the scene for a more realistic result using Final Gather. You'll learn how to unlock (camera) shaders which are hidden by default (glare) and we'll apply the glow shader to the objects and tweak the settings for a better result.When your done you can easily make a similar scene but then model a lightsaber instead and animate it or you could make some neon signs, enjoy.

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[fhodshon]

Excellent presentation!!!

THANK YOU!

fred

[Scherzi Ned]

Thank you!

[Qozzie]

Great tutorial Jelmar, thank you.

[Lowreens]

video quality sometimes is poor but i like it

[Jelmer]

I'm in the process of uploading some higher quality tutorials for registered members so check that out if you need better quality!

[Farel]

Sup dude, cool vid, just one problem I encountered. I dont have Glare(lume) within my camera shaders output section, do you know why? or how i can fix it? cheers

[Jelmer]

that's probably because you have to unlock the shader, it could also depend on your max version. After adjusting the text file that unlocks the shader you have to restart max before it works, maybe that helps as well.
Post again if the problem persists.

[Farel]

Thank you for the reply, Im currently running version 8. can you give me more information/instructions for unlocking the shaders? ta,

[Jelmer]

i think it's covered in the video tutorial.. if not then i'll post again...