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Setting mental ray render options

Setting mental ray render options - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Setting mental ray render options

- [Voiceover] If you choose to use the mental ray renderer then you want to adjust its parameters, of course its render setup options, and you might need to do things like change the lighting and materials as well. In fact, that's what I've done in this version of the scene. I've replaced all the physical materials on my cactus and the other objects with standard materials and mental ray will be able to handle those standard materials, whereas the physical material would actually cause mental ray to throw up an error message on the screen because those materials are not really supported. Likewise, to get better results with mental ray I've chosen to use photometric lighting rather than the standard light. And so this spotlight here now is actually a photometric spotlight. And also I've reenabled gamma correction because again, you do want gamma enabled when working with photometric lights. We'll just check in on that, go to customize preferences just to show you that gamma is…

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