Mental Ray and Output Window...

[ckas]

first I would activate -progress- in the translation menu of the renderglobals

[Modulok]

first I would activate -progress- in the translation menu of the renderglobals

:annoyed: ...I looked for a good long time for anything to do with "progress" or "Translation menu"and found nothing in the render globals for both mental ray, and the maya render globals, I echoed all commands in the script editor thinking maybe I missed something, I searched the help files, I searched the "find menu" function....it would be sooo cool if I could "turn on progress" but...I'm not seeing it...anywhere. Maybe I'm blinded from looking too hard ( you know how it goes) ...but where the hell is it??! :annoyed:


Thanks for trying
Any other help would be...helpful ;)
-Modulok-

[cesco]

Hi,

go to mentalrayglobals windows under the Translation tab you should see a pull down menu
with Warning messages selected just select Progress Messages.


And if you're a Windows user you should see it on the Output window.

Bye.

[Modulok]

I'M BLIND!!! Thank you, works like a charm now :thumbsup: ...now I feel stupid for not seeing it in the first place. Ya know when your too busy looking for something to find it...well, it happens :p

Thanks for putting up with me, both of you! :applause:
-Modulok-

[Dark Alchemist]

Off the subject but in that scene what all did you use? I never can get scenes to look like that in MR or Maya.

[Modulok]

The above was Mental Ray

1 Spotlight:
100,000 photons
1.25 exponent
the rest as default

Globals:
GI Accuracy 100
Photon Volume Accuracy 100
The rest as default

Final Gather
All Defaults


Here is a little tut that should help get you up and running with Mental Ray for Maya



Mental Ray tut (http://www.3dluvr.com/intercepto/maya/tutorials/mray_thegathering/indoor01.htm)

Best of luck
-Modulok-

[Dark Alchemist]

Thanks for the info.

Oh, was one of your lights shaded the daylight color or was the walls?

Thanks again.

[Modulok]

There was a lambert shader applied to the room that was kind of a cream color. Here is the scene file if you want to mess around with it be my guest ;)

Mental Ray Scene (http://www.tufentertainment.net/modulok/Mental_Ray_Scene.mb)

-Modulok-

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