Adobe Illustrator and Mental Ray United*

+ Everyone is invited for the wedding of adobe illustrator & Mental Ray, RSVP to Letterbox Animation Studios. The integration of the world's best 2D renderer and the world's best 3D renderer: IQ. Illustrator and Mental Ray has been achieved claims Letterbox Animation Studios. Who say: " This groundbreaking union creates unparalleled possibilities in the creation of artwork for feature films, TV series, architectural pre-visualization, and the potential to vastly improve the graphic quality of games."
This means that for any texture, instead of creating a bitmap version, you can use the Illustrator file directly. So you don’t have to go though the intermediate step of the bitmap. This means files sizes are massively reduced. E.g. if the Illustrator file is about 200-300k, a bitmap could end up being 200-300 meg (depending on scale / resolution), vectors can be a magnitude of order smaller. You can zoom (dolly) in closer to the image, and it just does not get pixilated, it always stays sharp. For more information, Click here!

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Holomatix Rendition Version 1.0.263

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PSD2Mat For 3ds Max Now Supports Brazil and Mental Ray

+ RDG PSD2Mat a handy 3ds Max script, which we have featured last month now support the well known renderers Brazil and Mental Ray as new features. Other render supports such as Final Render are in beta already. PSD2Mat is a FREE production proven connection between Adobe PhotoShop® and Autodesk 3D Studio MAX®. This 3ds Max Script converts layered PSD Files into a Scanline or VRay Material. Named layers are converted to bitmapfiles and assigned to their respective material slots.
Features:
- Autodetection of map names in layered PSD files.
- Versioning
- Configurable with 'textfiles'
- Photoshop Template Helpers
- 3D studio Max Scanliner Material Support
- VRay Material Support
- Brazil Material Support
- Mental Ray Material Support
Watch the demo - Video
PSD2Mat for 3ds Max - download link

Labels: Brazil r/s, Mental Ray, Useful 2d/3d Tools

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mental mill Artist Edition

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Skin Shading with Mental Ray

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T2S Mental Ray Shaders for XSI

Handy MentalRay Shaders for XSI

- Some real great mental ray shaders for XSI developed by Tek2Shoot R&D, for taking photorealism with XSI to next level. Tek2Shoot's Research and development department is a software development team dedicated to developping next generation tools for digital content creation industry. It is focusing on providing new graphic tools and productivity tools that aim to make big production as easy as small ones for graphic artists. Check gallery section for dowloading the MentalRay shaders preset files.

T2S_Illumination - is dedicated to CG artists looking for a single Illumination node to be used as a basic building block for a great variety of materials.

T2S_Lafortune - The Lafortune representation is a BRDF model (as Phong, Blinn, etc...) fitted to experimental values. It allows to create realistic specular with color fluctuation depending on the viewing / lighting angles.

Unexposed Mental Ray shaders - This XSI addon file is a wrapper containing several unexposed Mental Ray shaders for XSI. The interface has been improved according to the Mental Image documentation.

Fresnel Mask - The Fresnel Mask determines the reflectivity of a surface depending on its refractive index (IOR).When used as a Mask on the reflectivity of a shader, the grazing-angles surfaces become more reflective than those facing the camera, adding realism to the material illumination....and more!!

For more info about shaders and preset files download please visit - T2S Website

Labels: Mental Ray, XSI

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3DM Tutorial - VRay & MentalRay

- 3DM has published two new Video tutorials by Aziz Khan. In Both the tutorials, Aziz will show how to create nifty looking global illumination and sun lighting in V-Ray n' Mental Ray Respectively.
Video tutorial V-Ray - Click here
Video tutorial Mental Ray - Click here
Tags: Vray Lighting Tutorial . 3ds max tutorials

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Expressive Effects 2.0.1 Shader plug-in for Maya®

- Expressive Effects™ is a Maya® plug-in for rendering cartoon and other non-photorealistic style images. This Maya plug-in package includes shaders that can be used for simulating ink & paint, woodblock printing, pen & ink hatching and halftone shading, among other styles. All the plugins effects are fully integrated into Maya and may be used in shading networks just like the built-in Maya shaders. Expressive Effects 2.0.1 works with Maya 6.5, Maya 6.0 and Maya 5.0 running on Windows 2000/XP.............download maya plug-in!
Tags: Maya plugins . Maya scripts

Labels: Maya plugins, Mental Ray

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Download MentalRay Shaders For Max | Maya | XSI

- Download couple of MentalRay Shaders compatible with 3d studio max, Maya and Softimage XSI . These royalty-free shaders for MentalRay is written by David Lanier and you may use the following shaders for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Couple of useful scripts for Maya , 3ds Max and XSI are also available for download.........Link!
Tags: MentalRay . 3ds Max scripts . Maya Scripts . XSI

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Download MentalRay / XSI Shaders

- Download these couple of new and old, but certainly very usefull MentalRay / XSI shaders. diffusion 1.0: A very versatile sub surface scattering shader. muhHair 1.01: A replacement for default hair shader in XSI. diffraction: The diffraction shader is a refraction replacement for mentalray/XSI. It not only corrects XSI's pesky refraction bug, but also sports fast glossy refractions and the ability to compute chromatic. dirtmap: The dirtmap is a procedural dirt/ambient occlusion shader for mentalray. It comes with presets/declarations for SoftimageXSI and a big backpack of features...Download link!!

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MR / XSI Shaders and Scripts!

Some Hot MentalRay /Maya Shaders
Tags: Mentalray shaders . XSI

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XSI Shaders and Scripts!

- Free Shader Collection for download, - contains couple of Mental Ray shaders for XSI. Volume Shaders for XSI and few scripts are also available for XSI........Link!!
Tags: XSI . XSI Scripts . MentalRay shaders

Labels: Mental Ray, VRay Tutorials, XSI, XSI plugins

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BFurry: Fur Generating Plugin for XSI

- BFurry is a plugin which will generate fur and short hair in XSI. The plugin is shareware. The plugin will generate control fibers for the fur which can control length and direction and can be shape-animated. The generated fur works with standard hair shaders. Generates fur / short hair on polymesh objects. This is real Mental Ray ® hair and will cast ray-traced shadows. Guide hairs are created which control fur length and direction. For more information, please download the plug-in with documentation.

Tags: XSI . XSI plug-ins . MentalRay . XSI fur plug-in

Labels: Mental Ray, XSI, XSI plugins

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wave2RGB, A MetalRay Shader (XSI)!!

wavelength to RGB mental ray shader

- wave2RGB, is MentalRay Shader for XSI by Anthony Rossano , who have been working for last fifteen years in mutimedia and animation industry. Anthony have compiled wave2RGB,the shader after runing lots of test and experiments.....Anthony Rossano; I've been thinking that a lot of rendering problems are made more difficult by the RGB color system, and the need to calculate results for the three channels independantly. I started to wonder why we use RGB for such things. I started to wonder if I could write shaders that used a model closer to the physics of light as we understand it today. I took some initial steps in that line of thought, and quickly realized that I'd need to convert from my own colorspace based on light physics to the common RGB system. I assumed that would be trivial, and that there would be a..........Read more and download Sharder (link) !!
Tags: XSI . MentalRay . Softimage . MentalRay Shaders

Labels: Mental Ray, VRay Tutorials, XSI, XSI plugins

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Smedge 3 version 1.8.0 Released and Available for Download !!

Smedge 3 version 1.8.0 Released and Available for Download.......Source: CGIndia

- The newest version of Smedge 3 is now available to download. This version fixes several bugs that affected connections under heavy work loads, and should prove the most stable version yet. It also includes several nifty new features.Rebuilt from the ground up, the next generation of Smedge provides unbeatable power and flexibility combined with incredible stability. Smedge 3 uses a new Module system to allow it to work on any number of types of Jobs. The plug-in Modules come in two flavors: a Virtual Module, an easy to create text file that describes the most common elements needed to control just about any commandline driven rendering program, and Compiled Modules, which access the full power of the Smedge API to do sophisticated control and processing of just about anything you can figure out how to divide.Smedge currently includes Modules to render: 3D Studio Max, MayaMan, After Effects, mental ray for Maya, Alias Studio, mental ray standalone, Combustion, Nuke, Digital Fusion, Shake, Lightwave, XSI, Maya etc.....!!!
Tags: 3d Rendering . Animation Rendering . Rendering system . Rendering Manager

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