Books on Mental Ray Shader Coding

#1

Hi i wanna get started in some shader coding. Are there any books that cover this aspect using Mental Ray. Thanks!

#2

programming mental ray - ed. Springer
rendering with mental ray - ed. Springer

#3

Hi
Thanks for the links! From what i can see Programming Mental Ray has not yet been released? Is that correct?

#4

it is sitting on my shelves but there may be a new edition pending though.

#5

Heres some info by Thomas Driemyer from the mentalray mailinglist:

“It hasn’t been finalized yet, but it looks like a third edition of
Rendering with mental ray with a CD that may contain the Programming
book as PDF and/or HTML. The main difference is the upgrade to mental
ray 3.4, which isn’t available yet but will be by the time the book
ships. Can’t have a 3.3 book out and three months later everyone uses
3.4… The target is January or February, but last time it took three
months to get it past the editors at Springer, who are absolute
perfectionists and will hunt down every last misplaced comma and
badly indented footnote.”

In the meantime an older version of Programming Mentalray is availible here as pdf: http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/URZ/hardware/parallel/local/softimage/Soft3D_html/mray/_mefirst.htm

#6

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