In this tutorial I'll teach you how to make a picture of a glass using caustics Some knowledge of the Maya interface will be used for this tutorial like shelves, menu sets, attributes editer, basic knowledge of what rendering is, etc. But still this is a beginners tutorial
Occlusion is a powerful feature in Mental Ray (Mental Ray is a renderer that comes with Maya as a plug-in). It allows you to simulate perfect lighting without creating a light in your scene.
In this tutorial we will walk you through the process of creating believable Lamplight using Maya. To give lamp realistic effect we just can’t put a single point light in the middle but we have to use multiple lights with different settings to produce the result we are looking for
Making believable candle flames is like a challenge for Maya rookies. In this tutorial we will walk you through the process of creating realistic looking candle flames. Here we will use multiple point lights that will simulate the candle flames. We will also play with shaders to get nice effect
This tutorial was designed to teach anyone who is interested in rendering with Mental Ray's Final Gather but was either scared to learn or simply didn't think they had the time.
The source of all our natural light is the sun, however it takes on different characteristics at different times of day and in different weather conditions.
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