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Simply Maya – Exterior Lighting in Mental Ray

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Simply Maya – Exterior Lighting in Mental Ray
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Category: Tutorial


The goal of this tutorial is not to teach you how to light up one scene, it’s to get you comfortable working with mental ray for exterior arc-viz.

We use a relatively simple model so we can focus our efforts on techniques that you can reuse in your own scenes. What’s covered in this tutorial is listed below.
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Simply Maya – Spach-Alspaugh House UV – Bake and Environment

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Simply Maya – Spach-Alspaugh House UV – Bake and Environment
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Category: CBTs


In this five and a half hour long tutorial we take a look at creating the UV and the environment for the Spach-Alspaugh House. This tutorial covers a wide range of topics including UV mapping, baking of high resolution geometry into displacement (normal maps can also be generated) and ambient occlusion maps to prepare for texturing, this is done using mental ray and Maya’s inbuilt turtle render engine.
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Simply Maya – Spach-Alspaugh House UV – Bake and Environment

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Simply Maya – Spach-Alspaugh House UV – Bake and Environment
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Category: Tutorial


In this five and a half hour long tutorial we take a look at creating the UV and the environment for the
Spach-Alspaugh House.

This tutorial covers a wide range of topics including UV mapping, baking of high
resolution geometry into displacement (normal maps can also be generated) and ambient occlusion maps to
prepare for texturing, this is done using mental ray and Maya’s inbuilt turtle render engine.
[Read more…]

Simply Maya – Interiors and Furniture Vol 4 Shading Lighting and Rendering the Bedroom in MR

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Simply Maya – Interiors and Furniture Vol 4: Shading Lighting and Rendering the Bedroom in MR
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Category: Simply Maya


In this tutorial we cover the shading, lighting and rendering of the bedroom scene in Mental Ray. We take a look at a couple of different lighting scenarios, in this case daytime and nighttime,as well as explore some complex materials in Mental Ray. Finally we set up a few of the essential render passes, DOF, volumetric lighting and ambient occlusion. The new Mila material for Maya 2015 is covered in this project, but there is also a part that shows users of older versions of Maya how to achieve the same result. All the post processing is done in Photoshop. All assets are included. [Read more…]

Simply Maya – Interiors and Furniture Vol 3 Headus UVLayout

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Simply Maya – Interiors and Furniture Vol 3 Headus UVLayout
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Category: Simply Maya


The main aim of this tutorial is to speed up your UV workflow and to get you creating flat accurate maps quickly. By the end of this tutorial youÆll have an understanding of the principles of UV layout, but more importantly youÆll be able to create your own UVÆs quickly. This tutorial can be viewed as a standalone product, or as volume 3 in our furniture and interiors series. All assets are included [Read more…]