Comments on: Autodesk hires mental ray wizard Zap Andersson http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/09/autodesk-hires-mental-ray-wizard-zap-andersson/ Community for Entertainment Artists Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:06:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mental Ray's Struggle for Relevance in VFX http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/09/autodesk-hires-mental-ray-wizard-zap-andersson/#comment-31138 Mental Ray's Struggle for Relevance in VFX Thu, 05 Jul 2012 07:36:19 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=27776#comment-31138 [...] free of cancerous knobs and liver-spotted rasterizers. And while the news that Mental Ray guru Zap Anderson is heading to Autodesk to work on 3dsmax is good for that camp, it does little to ease industry-wide fears about [...]

]]> By: Luciano Neves http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/09/autodesk-hires-mental-ray-wizard-zap-andersson/#comment-13054 Luciano Neves Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:21:06 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=27776#comment-13054 This is amazing good news ! Congratulations !!!

]]> By: Dewald http://www.cgchannel.com/2011/09/autodesk-hires-mental-ray-wizard-zap-andersson/#comment-12993 Dewald Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:54:54 +0000 http://www.cgchannel.com/?p=27776#comment-12993 This is very good news. Zap is the man.

Production Rendering Techniques with Mental Ray (MRY201 fxphd) course is amazing. So many concepts are explained in concise detail. I think it is a must for anybody who renders with mental ray.

I was pulling my hair out the other day. I was rendering hair in mental ray(3ds max) so I had to use Mental ray shadow maps. I used a seperate light for the hair ambient light so I had to exclude the rest of the objects from the light, this does not work in mental ray, the objects still cast shadows. I know there is a work-around for raytraced shadows but that does not work for shadow maps.

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