zap's repository of mental ray tips and tricks, frequent questions and their answers, and some smoke and mirror mental ray trickery you may not find elsewhere...
As you all probably have noticed, stuff on this blog has... kinda died down. This is because I do not work as directly with mental ray per se anymore. I do, however, work a lot in rendering. But it feels a bit strange to post stuff not about mental ray on a blog called "mental ray tips", don't you think?
Anyway, today, we started the Brand New Blog, called The Rendering Alliance, which is the blog of the 3ds max Rendering team.
The first post is an introduction to our mad team
Await a lot more posting by yours truly (and the rest of the guys and gals) on this new blog. I can kinda sorta almost promise something kinda sorta fun. Ish. Stay tuned..... :)
It's that time of year again... this time, in REMASTERED FULL HD GLORY:
For those really annoyed this blog has not been updated... I promise you 2013 will be The Year. For sure....assuming we survive the Mayan apocalypse. No not Maya, the Mayans.
I normally don't use mentalraytips.com to post "funny" things, but I had to make an exception for this, because, well... you'll see.
When I received this little video, it literally made my day. It's the "Behind The Scenes" video for Freddie Wong's "Epic VFX Time". Freddie does little funny visual effects experiments and tutorials on his youtube channel - well worth a watch.
However, when this came across my screen, well, I couldn't help but laugh:
I've been mentioned in VFX behind-the-scenes documentaries before - but never like this.
Thanks guys. :)
However, I'd like to massively correct that I am not "the guy who programs mental ray", I am *a* guy who programs mental ray *shaders*. That's different. We are a whole team behind the software, not just me...
