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 [...]

This issue is most evident when rendering an image with an alpha channel and then trying to use it in a compositing application. Here is a default mental ray render layered on a gray background in Photoshop: The dark edging is due to the “Premultiply” option in mental ray found in the render settings window [...]

Once you launch Toxik it will take over the entire screen. You can adjust that by doing the following Create a shortcut on your desktop RMB click on it and choose properties Add “ –w” at the end of the Target filed (Note the extra space after the “) So it will be like this [...]