los angeles mental ray user group meeting

mental ray for maya

welcome attendees

October 26, 2004

Introduction

I work as a Senior Support Engineer at Alias  in Toronto. In the past, I've worked as a StudioTools and Maya trainer and consultant. My primary focus these days is mental ray for Maya.

mental ray for Maya

The following areas will be discussed:

• Tour of the UI

• Scene Setup

• Optimizing mental ray for Maya renders

mental ray for Maya Render Farm

Render Farm setup will be presented:

• Paralellism

• Master vs Slave

• Required software

• maya.rayhosts and .rayhosts files

• command line rendering

Standalone Installation

mental ray Standalone for windows installation will be covered

• Installing mental ray 3.3

• Licensing mental ray 3.3

• Starting mental ray 3.3

exporting .mi

Creating .mi files from the UI and via a script. 

mental ray for maya dynamic attributes

Extension of mental ray functionality within the UI via Dynamic Attributes.

Extras 

A few extra's that may come in handy.