Continuing on my previous post Mental Ray Production Library– Enabling mip Shaders .We can now start exploring the available new nodes. In this session we will have a closer look at  how to use the mip Shaders, in particular the mip_rayswitch_environment, the mip_cameramap, and the mip_mirrorball to composite 3d elements onto a live action background. [...]

Continuing on my previous post Mental Ray Production Library– Enabling mip Shaders .We can now start exploring the available new nodes. In this session we will have a closer look at  the mip_binaryproxy and how to use  it as an object holder for a complex geometry that will only appear at render time

Continuing on my previous post Mental Ray Production Library– Enabling mip Shaders .We can now start exploring the available new nodes. In this session we will have a closer look at  the mip_motion_vector and how to use  it in post to get fast render of our motion blur. The MEL scripts that I used in [...]

Continuing on my previous post Mental Ray Production Library– Enabling mip Shaders .We can now start exploring the available new nodes. In this session we will have a closer look at  the mip_motionblur and how to use  it to speed up our render time when using motion blur. [...]

Maya 2008 and up, was shipped with some un-supported mental ray Shaders called mip (mental images production) Shaders. To expose theses Shaders in Maya we need to alter the mel script “mentalrayCustomNodeClass.mel” in this folder C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\scripts\others Edit: It came to my attention there is an easier way of exposing these shaders in your script [...]