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Als
03-05-2009, 05:55 PM
Hi,
just wondering if using mental ray for rendering, is it possible to render with same setup, and get close or same looking image?
Any experience on the issues is welcome.

Thanks


Als

Gal
03-05-2009, 09:34 PM
yes i've recently worked on a project where we rendered half in xsi and half with maya.
the mental ray settings are identical and so are the shaders. however, some little things may vary like color saturation in some shaders. we used the lglass shader and the result though not identical was very very close with the same color values.
we used a modified fbx exporter/importer to transfer cameras,animation.. lights are also movable however i suggest rebuilding them ontop of the transfered location just to be safe...i wouldnt trust export/imported lights.
just make sure you put your maya camera resolution gate on horizontal!! otherwise the cameras will not match with xsi.

Als
03-08-2009, 04:57 PM
That's great, thanks for the advice.


Als