Maya Tutorial: Rendering Shiny Things part 2

In this tutorial I focus mostly on using the glory of fresnel reflection to achieve a realistic reflective surface in Maya. I also talk a bit about the physics of light and how that correlates to shader settings.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• redering
• maya
• shaders
• lighting
• cd
• computer animation
• 3d
• fresnel
• reflection
• mental
• ray
• render
• shader
• visual
• effects
• vfx
• film
• post
• graphics
• image based lighting
• hdr
• high dynamic range image
• adobe photoshop
• tutorial
• gnomon
• lighter
• compositing
• compositor

[AidanReed]

@MrMurray744

Window->Settings:Preferences->­PluginManager->Enable "mayatomr".

Next time, use google to answer obvious questions.

[MrMurray744]

N00b question, but I dont have a mental ray option under "render using"

[cglaw11]

fantastic tutorial... helped me achieve the look i wanted thanks so much

[winstchurchpatch]

This has to be the most helpful tutorial i have ever seen in my life!!!! Thank you sooooo much!

[sircharlesgraham]

you say its an area light in the last render..

but you plug a ramp into the texture tab.

Is there an area light introduced there or does it work as is?

Thanks

Graham

[kossposs]

very useful, thank you

[Nantchev]

I am doing my final open project at college and I am using HDRI within my animation, and this is going to help BIG time.

[humdot]

great tutorial man!

[pametnicar]

great tut. you helped me a lottttttttttt!!!

[sebazx6r]

thanks mate :D thats what I needed.