New Final Gathering tutorial

[RichSuchy]

Thank you, Ive been using FG and and GI in Mental Ray for a couple of weeks and you gave me a few more tidbits that really clearify things. Her'es to better and better results.

Rich

[Kabab]

In Maya 5 there is a button in the render globals to turn on or off the deafult light :)

[Heber]

"bandwidth limit exceeded" if you want i can host your tutorials on my other domain , i have a ton of bandwidth and space to spare ,

[X-Tender]

Thanx .. i like the object light method =)

[Jozvex]

Originally posted by rayfusion
"bandwidth limit exceeded" if you want i can host your tutorials on my other domain , i have a ton of bandwidth and space to spare ,

Hey that would be cool!

Darn free Geocities hehe. At least I know people are looking at the tutorial!

Oh and Kabab, yeah there's a button for that in Maya 4.5 too but I just find it easier using a "non light". I have a shelf button that creates one.

Thanks for the comments guys! :wavey:

[wgreenlee1]

Good stuff there!:thumbsup:

[Heber]

contact me at : ray_fusion@hotmail.com or icq 81041913 , and i can give you ftp info , then id be uploading your files to
http://www.webhaste.com and hosted under there , i never use that domain anyways, :)

[ceql]

nice notes in the tut! thnx! :beer:

[Jozvex]

Thanks to Rayfusion's super generosity, my tutorials are now on his server!! Here's the new link:

http://www.webhaste.com/~rayfusion/jozvex/tutorials.html

[Kabab]

Originally posted by Jozvex
Oh and Kabab, yeah there's a button for that in Maya 4.5 too but I just find it easier using a "non light". I have a shelf button that creates one.
I think in 5 now the default light is off by default now..

[tuna]

Holy shit. Hey Jozvex didnt know you were from around this part of the woods ;)

Tutorial covers some pretty good things. Nice. :)

[Hugh]

Originally posted by Jozvex
Thanks to Rayfusion's super generosity, my tutorials are now on his server!! Here's the new link:

http://www.webhaste.com/~rayfusion/jozvex/tutorials.html

'doh - I really should have read down in the thread before e-mailing you earlier - offering hosting space on my server...

Ah well.... The offer does still stand if you want it (http://jozvex.vfxtalk.com ;))

Anyway.... love the tut(s) - gonna run through the Final Gathering one now - need to get more into Mental Ray....

[Jozvex]

Originally posted by Kabab
I think in 5 now the default light is off by default now..

Could be, my 4.5 preferences have probably turned them back on when I installed 5 or something. Either way, my tuts aren't just for Maya 5, so I have to include the light thing anyway. Otherwise I'll get emails saying "where's the option to turn off the default light?" and "since doing your tutorial my scene is always dark!".

Originally posted by tuna
Hey Jozvex didnt know you were from around this part of the woods.

Hehe. I post on 3DBuzz, CGTalk, Highend3D, 3D-Palace and occasionally on the new CGChannel Forums. Oh and sometimes on Simply Maya too! I'm everywhere!!!

Of course if someone would hire me..... I wouldn't have so much free time!

And thanks Hugh! That's a great offer! I'm going to look into get my own site going soon hopefully. Maybe Jozvex.com??? But I'll most definitely keep the offer in mind!

So now the question is, which tutorial should I do next?


GI?
Caustics?
HDRI?
Glossy reflections?
Or something completely different? Maybe even requested?

[Hugh]

Originally posted by Jozvex
And thanks Hugh! That's a great offer! I'm going to look into get my own site going soon hopefully. Maybe Jozvex.com??? But I'll most definitely keep the offer in mind!

The offer for space is certainly still open if you've got your own domain - to be honest, that would be easier for us!

Have e-mailed you with a couple of comments.....

Oh, and I vote for caustics next...

[AroundTheFur]

glossy reflections would be nice, and if you could find a quick way of rendering it thatd be even better! the scripts ive tried havent worked. mental ray is definately cool.

[PureFire]

thanks for the tutorial....you helped a lot :beer:

[Gremlin]

Originally posted by Jozvex
Hi,

For those that have been relentlessly stalking and harrassing me...
HAHA, Thats so me!!
andways, tutorial kicks ass!
now, if only mental ray supported post effects like "glow" then it'd be all good.
Cheers
:beer:

[Jozvex]

Hehe yes Gremlin it is you!

But that's ok, it got me to finally finish it. I'm glad people are liking it!

And I want glow in MR too! :annoyed:

[CIM]

The Default Light can be turned off in Render Globals (both Maya 5 and 4.5).

[Jozvex]

Yeah, I just went with the "non-light" approach because there's less "open that section" etc. Everyone knows how to make lights, so there's less to get confused about.

I get emails from some people asking super basic questions, which is fine, but if I can get them the whole way there in the tutorial it's better.

[Russo]

very very good tutorial :thumbsup:

[Bliz]

Yep, great tutorial. I now know what I'm doing :thumbsup:

[Undseth]

Oh Oh, can you do a FG/GI combo tutorial as well? That would be really nice!

[RichSuchy]

Originally posted by undseth
Oh Oh, can you do a FG/GI combo tutorial as well? That would be really nice!

I like to see that too. I know you can get more speed and nicer look by mixing them properly, Also if you are baking textures, GI helps get around a nasty problem with FG having some missing parts of the maps.

Perhaps more sense of how that works could be made in a tutorial.

[Jozvex]

Originally posted by undseth
Oh Oh, can you do a FG/GI combo tutorial as well? That would be really nice!

Ok, well when I do my GI tutorial I'll make sure to add a section on how Final Gathering can improve the quality and speed. Same with the Caustics tutorial.

Thanks guys! I'm so glad people are finding my efforts usefull!!

:wavey:

[Heber]

the tuts rock , keep em coming jared :D

[RichSuchy]

Originally posted by Jozvex
Ok, well when I do my GI tutorial I'll make sure to add a section on how Final Gathering can improve the quality and speed. Same with the Caustics tutorial.

Thanks guys! I'm so glad people are finding my efforts usefull!!

:wavey:
Thank you! I will watch for it!

[Threedeemer]

Excellent tutorial, I can actually use mental ray now, big thanks to you. Cant wait for the GI tutorial. :buttrock:

[alx]

Jozvex
I AM INCREDIBLY GRATEFULL WITH YOUR TUT I NEDEED TO MAKE A SOCCER BALL AND MAKE IT LOOK pHOTOREAL oops caps soz...

anways
i wanted to use Mr but didnt know much about it and scpecialy o a short deadline.. and your tut made me have a nice decent render for a quick concpet... i really relaly appreciate it man!!!!

u RULE!!!


sincerly
alx

IF ITS ok with you i could post the image in your honor :)

sincerley
alx

[Jozvex]

Hehe sure you can alx!

Hmm, I should probably say something like:

"Let the image not only honour me, let it honour all those who help people!"

;)

[kag122]

Jozvex and others.
Instead of creating a light and setting its intensity to 0.

Just open up render globals>render options

Then uncheck the enable default light setting.

simple.

[Jozvex]

I know!!!! :scream: :surprised :scream:

Hehe sorry kag122, it's just that you're the third person in this thread to say that, and I've explained twice what my reasoning is. Not to mention the people on 3D Buzz too!

I'll go and update the tut right now with a side note about why I did it that way.

And just because the screaming smiley is so cute, here it is again:

:scream:

Hehe,

[alx]

well here it is i know it still neds work but its great for a draft image :P

in honour to Jozvex and all those who help people :D


tx man the tut rulez!! simple and straight forward i got this done in like 2 maybe 3 hours :D

soccer ball
http://www.alxstudios.com/SoccerBall.jpg


sincerely
alx
:wavey:

[Grooveholmes]

Ha!

I gave your set up a quick shot with some simple geometry and i must say it works great, and really quick too!

http://www.joshball.com/imagedump/ooo.jpg

Clean and easy.

[Gremlin]

Hey cool soccer ball... I think the wihte material needs a bit omre refining, but how did you make that grass man? its kick ass? Is it just paintFX?
Cheers,
:beer:

[Jozvex]

Great images both of you!

[alx]

wel the gras is not Px unfortuanltly didnt have the time to work on it its just a google search on grass :P

gotta give credit where it is due..

the white i agree i had a better render but unfortunatly the grass for that one sucked cuz it was repeating so didnt look good and i changedsomthing on the ball and then the material got messed up.. ohh well its hard to retrace ur steps .. and i didnt have that one saved.. ohh welll.. the good thing is that i learned a bit of Mr :D

tx peeps..


sincerely
alx
:wavey:

[Gremlin]

wow, its not pfx... congrats, thats some sweet lookin' grass, dun even know if pfx can make grass that good. :D
hehe, I gotta start playin' with DOF, I havent done that in 2 yrs of 3D, can you believe that?
Cheers,
:beer:

[Jozvex]

Somehow Gremlin.......with you....I can believe that!

Hehe you'll have to follow my DOF tut then!

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