From the course: Modeling an F1 Wheel in Maya

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Using mental ray for higher-quality renders

Using mental ray for higher-quality renders - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Modeling an F1 Wheel in Maya

Start my 1-month free trial

Using mental ray for higher-quality renders

“

In this video, we're going to talk a little bit about the MentalRay rendering capabilities within Maya. In chapter two, let's open up file 12 MentalRay. And we're going to go up to Windows, to the plugin manager. And at the very bottom, let's just make sure the Maya to MentalRay plugin is loaded. Next thing we want to do is go into rendering, and select a model, and select a blend. Just go into our blend mode, and change to a red. Next thing we'll do is we'll select that, press number three to smooth. We're going to go to our View, Camera Settings, Resolution Gate. Let's re-frame this, this is just all the presets that I go through, before we start actually rendering in MentalRay. So under Render settings, make sure we have MentalRay selected, we're going to change our formats to a tiff, again you can use jpeg, that's just a preference. And for now we're going to change the quality down to 640, and with that let's do a quick rendering. So that looks quite nice, and we're going to…

Contents