VRay-like interior renders with mental ray???

[system]

about thes images… render with mental ray with irradiance particles and importons, as i belive this methood is much better from the regular final gather.

in the first image (with the curtains and sculpture) the lights are photometric spots. i put those spots in the same way they should be in reality and pointed them to diffrent places on the scene. all thos spot are area lights with a very small rectangle. in addition again like reall world when photographers take picture of an interior for catalogue the use a spaciel light i think the call it skylight, so i put a area light with big rectangle and with little cold light color at the back of the camera more or less.

the second image lit bya regular mr sun and sky, but instead of skyportal i use a area light. im still not satisfied with this one. i think mr deal very good with artificial lights like area lights and spots but it is lacking somthing when dealing with daylight system - anyway still working to improve it.

Are these Maya and MR 3.7? …or Max and MR 3.6.5? …also, can you share render times you are getting with Importons and Irradiance Particles?

Thanks,
Travis

[acmilan27]

i did it with max mr 3.65. render time - the first image about 1.5 hour withe secondery interpolation ip. the second one and i really dont know why (mabe because the fur carpet) took almost the same time with interpolation=always. working with intel quad 6600 2 gb ram.

[visua]

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[nemuro]

How’s this for a 10 minutes mental ray render?

RAW:

After Photoshop:

I used Irradiance indirect lightning with 3 passes. I also used four portal lights on the windows, one physical sky to get that nice gradient outside the window, and a photographic exposure attached to the render camera to tune out the contrast.

AMD 64 x2 5200+ with 3 GB RAM.
Windows XP 32 bit and Maya 2009.

[TANKQ]

How’s this for a 10 minutes mental ray render?

I used Irradiance indirect lightning with 3 passes. I also used four portal lights on the windows, one physical sky to get that nice gradient outside the window, and a photographic exposure attached to the render camera to tune out the contrast.

AMD 64 x2 5200+ with 32 bit 3 gb RAM.
Windows XP and Maya 2009.

wow…that’s great bro…only 10 minutes with DOF…stunning bro.
actually i want to use photographic exposure, but everytime i’m using it on lens shader, it won"t work, the rendered is blackout. actually what’s wrong with it? do anyone knows why? do i have to connect to others?

bro nemuro, can u share ur photographic_exposure setting here? thx b4

[marlaS]

Hi guys, I read this thread a lot of time and I learned a lot too. So I show you my last personal-study work. Rendered with sun&sky, FG mb, BSP2 and mr-proxy.

Render take 2.5 Hour for this pic.

here you can find other images.

[Spacelord]

Marla,
My God there Awesome renders !! Your Landscape is fantastic.

cheers

[nemuro]

actually i want to use photographic exposure, but everytime i’m using it on lens shader, it won"t work, the rendered is blackout. actually what’s wrong with it? do anyone knows why? do i have to connect to others?

Hi TANKQ,

After you plug in the mia_exposure_photographic for the render camera under mental ray > lens shader, if you are using physical sky, make sure under the settings for mia_physicalsky, you set the R Unit Conversion, G Unit Conversion and B Unit Conversion to at least 0.318000. Play with that until you get the desired effect.

After you get the setting right, you can start tuning the settings for mia_exposure_photographic. To add some visual pop you could increase “Burn Highlights”.

bro nemuro, can u share ur photographic_exposure setting here? thx b4

Sure thing, here they are:

But I still encourage you and anyone else to experiment on your own, what pleased me may not please you, it’s a matter of taste.

Also, taking the picture in Photoshop allowed me to further point out detail in the render without waiting another 10 minutes, so I recommend that.

Have fun!

[HowardB]

I RE-uploaded my room scene to the old LINK

more info on page LINK

[icarias]

I RE-uploaded my room scene to the old LINK

more info on page LINK

thanx a bunch, pal!
I was desperately looking for it…

[visua]

That is a nice scene Howard, much oblige for sharing, here’s a quick doodle.
And a somewhat different approach to the good ol’ classroom-scene, rendertime
for the classroom 2 minutes with mia_bokeh

[Hamburger]

very clean renders, like the first one most with the artificial and natural light.

what are you using? gi + fg? with mia_material_x color bleed?

[visua]

Thanx, only FG used this time around, a portal for the HowardB scene.
Mia_mat_x with bleed for Howard-scene and with detail for the classroom.

Cheers

//NIC

very clean renders, like the first one most with the artificial and natural light.

what are you using? gi + fg? with mia_material_x color bleed?

[drmaya]

That is a nice scene Howard, much oblige for sharing, here’s a quick doodle.
And a somewhat different approach to the good ol’ classroom-scene, rendertime
for the classroom 2 minutes with mia_bokeh

could u plz upload this scene for us ?
i mean with lighting?
your render time is absolutely amazing …

if not …can i buy it

[ankithbinu]

hi my name is bimal and iam new to this forum ,after reading all this threads i got some valuable information about mentalray in Maya .

[Sybexmed]

Can you please upload the scene of the room with computers, i wanna check out lighting setup… thanks!

That is a nice scene Howard, much oblige for sharing, here’s a quick doodle.
And a somewhat different approach to the good ol’ classroom-scene, rendertime
for the classroom 2 minutes with mia_bokeh

[Sybexmed]

Your work is amazing, but you heard that already. CAn you perhaps answer some of the questions alot of us have regarding the Mia_Material used on the painteffects? How did you work it out to look like leaves etc? Especially the grass, would love to see settings or maybe just an idea?

Hi guys, I read this thread a lot of time and I learned a lot too. So I show you my last personal-study work. Rendered with sun&sky, FG mb, BSP2 and mr-proxy.

Render take 2.5 Hour for this pic.

here you can find other images.

[visua]

Sure, here ya go:

Download

[Sybexmed]

Hey Visua i tried rendering the same scene with the same settings and i get a different render. The color seems different. Your scene looks more like an ambient occlusion pass. Did you do any post work in photoshop?

[Sybexmed]

Sure, here ya go:

Download

Here is what the scene looks like.