2003 Meeting Summaries

January 2003

On January 21, at Digiscope, we discussed effective usage of mental ray - how to maximize your rendering power by knowing how to set some of the basic parameters appropriately. This was taken from the perspective of rendering from the command line, and mental ray's defaults for these parameters.

No February 2003 Meeting

March 2003

For the March 4th meeting, at RFX, we had a presentation on XSI, and a visit from Rolf Herken, President and Director of R&D at mental images^®.

March summary

April 2003

For the April 22 meeting, at RFX, we focused on Maya 5, and introduced mental ray^® concepts and terminology to those new to it.

April summary

Presentation Slides

May 2003

For the May 27 meeting, at Digital Dimension, we focused on Photon Shaders and Photon Tracing.

May Summary

Presentation Slides

June 2003

For the June 24 meeting, at the Culver Hotel, we focused on Final Gathering.

June Summary

Presentation Slides

SIGGRAPH 2003

For the Initial Gathering on July 28, at the Horton Grand in San Diego, we focused on meeting each other on an international scale.

SIGGRAPH 2003 Summary

November 2003

For the November 24 meeting, at Motion Works Studios, we focused on the integration of mental ray into Discreet 3ds max 6^®.

November Summary

Presentation Slides

Acknowledgements

Thank you to mental images for giving their full support to the formation of a locally-based group dedicated to mental ray users.
Thank you to Digiscope for providing their meeting area for Jan. 21.
Thank you to Softimage for providing their resources for the March 4th meeting, and to Ray Feeney and RFX for use of their space that evening.
Thank you to Alias|Wavefront for providing their resources for the April 22nd meeting, and again, to Ray Feeney and RFX for use of their space for the meeting.
Thank you to Digital Dimension for providing their space for the May 27th meeting.
Thank you to MotionWorks Studios, for providing the space in conjunction with Motion Media for the November 24th meeting, and to Discreet for bringing out their "A Team".