Mastering mental ray: Rendering Techniques for 3D and CAD Professionals |  | Author: Jennifer O'Connor
Publisher: Sybex
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ISBN: 0470563850
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Publication Date: April 19, 2010
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Proven techniques for using mental ray effectively If you're a busy artist seeking high-end results for your 3D, design, or architecture renders using mental ray, this is the perfect book for you. It distills the highly technical nature of rendering into easy-to-follow steps and tutorials that you can apply immediately to your own projects. The book uses 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design to show the integration with mental ray, but users of any 3D or CAD software can learn valuable techniques for incorporating mental ray into their pipelines. - Takes you under the hood of mental ray, a stand-alone or bundled product that is often used with 3D or CAD software in the creation of movies, games, architectural renders, and television
- Focuses on only the most pertinent tools and techniques for busy professionals who need to quickly apply them on the job
- Provides compelling, practical tutorials so you can start incorporating mental ray into your own production pipelines
- Includes a DVD with step-by-step videos to help drive home concepts and techniques
Learn effective mental ray techniques with this great guide, then keep this practical book at your workstation for reference while you work! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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Complete and detailed April 16, 2010
Stephen Gabriel
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book was amazing and contained a vast amount of information that will benefit new users and experienced artists alike. Jennifer has gotten down into the nitty gritty details of mental ray from the materials all the way through indirect illumination, importons and irradiance. This book is a must have for any artist using mental ray within 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design.
De-mystifies Mental Ray April 20, 2010
Gary D. Rackliff (Orlando, FL)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is printed in color and written for the latest release of Autodesk 3ds Max and Max Design 2011. That's huge! When learning Mental Ray nothing is more important than seeing the results (good or bad) clearly illustrated and based on the latest release of the software. For seasoned production artists, the breakdown of some of the fundamentals that may have been lost or glossed over is well needed and clearly communicated. Building on those fundamentals, Jennifer walks you through setting up Mental Ray early on in scene creation and then how to tweak settings as the scene evolves guiding you to the desired result. Using Mental Ray without guidance can sometimes put you in a position of being one radio button or check box away from success. The problem is which radio button or check box will make the difference? Thanks to Jennifer's skillful technical writing and illustrations (in color!), this problem can now be solved allowing the user to create stunning visualizations without the serious time penalty of trial and error or deeper research.
Mastering Mental Ray is a much needed resource for the growing Mental Ray community.
Great, Detailed, And a Mental Ray Book Must Have! May 22, 2010
S. Othman (Tinley Park, IL)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Finally, a book that everyone can understand. What a great resourceful book! This book really makes you understand the whole concept of Mental Ray, no matter what experience you have. It's great for Beginners and Advanced users. This book is very Detailed with great colored images that help you understand what each tool excactly does. Jennifer O'Connor really went Above And Beyond for all types of Users. Max, Cad, and Even Revit. A whole chapter on Revit Rendering, How wonderful is that!! After going through this book I have a better understanding on how Mental Ray actually works. Mastering Mental Ray will be a book that I will use as my Rendering Resource and problem solving Book.
Easily the best book on mental ray that I've ever read. May 10, 2010
Jesse Martin
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
No matter what your experience level is with mental ray, this book will teach you something.
This book covers every single setting and control in mental ray. The author does an excellent job of explaining what each setting does in it's simplest form, and then takes it one step further by sharing the settings that she's found to work best in most cases.
There is an accompanying DVD with all of the source files so you can play with these settings for yourself and follow her examples step by step.
This book not only teaches you how to use mental ray effectively, but it covers how to use it efficiently as well which is what really sets this book apart from the others for me. There are numerous examples and studies in the book showing you how much of an impact certain settings will have on your render times, and also extensively covers evaluating and troubleshooting your renders using the diagnostic tools provided in mental ray.
This is an excellent read and my new go-to book whenever I have a mental ray problem or question.
Simply great! May 25, 2010
Alessandro Fogolin (Italy)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a Max Design beta tester. I met Jennifer in Autodesk beta forum for first, than in her web site. She is great, in her book she talks about the most important point of using Mental in Max with an incredible easy language. My congratulation Jenny, this is a very well done job! Waiting for the next :)
Alessandro Fogolin
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