Rendering and Lighting Tutorial

Introduction to Rendering in Maya

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Rendered for the first time and used the keep image option so I will be able to look a back and tell what has changed between my renders

Changed the material's reflectivity and re-rendered the scene

Changed the material color and rendered again

Changed the reflectivity again but when I saved the image I saved it with a comment saying what the setting is so that later on if I decided this rendered image was better than what I currently had I could change the settings back to what they were.

Dropped the reflectivity down lower and then saved the image with a comment saying the current reflectivity

Saved out one of the previously kept images

Deleted all of the kept images

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Opened up the lesson five tutorial files which have the default anti-aliasing settings and rendered the scene

adjusted the max sample level to 1 in adaptive sampling and re-rendered the scene

Changed the filtering type to triangle and set the filtering size to 2 and rendered the scene

Introduction to Lighting in Maya

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Set the left panel view to look through selected so to make lights easier to aim because it makes the view and light work more like a camera

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Created an ambient light in the scene

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Applied depth map shadows to the directional light.

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Applied Ray Trace shadows to the directional light

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Applied light fog to the spot light

Turned on the depth map shadows

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Created a point light and applied a light glow to it and then adjusted the glow, halo and lens flare attributes.

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Projected a gobo on the scene 

 Introduction to mental ray in Maya

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applied a mental ray mia_material_x  and changed the color of the diffuse and changed some of the settings like transparency

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Created an area light and then set it's decay rate to quadratic and raised the intensity. Then I created another area light and moved it to the other side of the robot changed it's color and set the light attributes to the same as the other light

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adjusted the unified sampling setting to remove some of the noise around the shadows

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Applied a physical sun and sky and adjusted the horizon height and haze level

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Gamma corrected the image with the color manager

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Activated global illumination, upped it's accuracy setting and told maya to emit photons from the area light in the scene.

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Turned on final gathering and adjusted it's settings, and turned on ambient occlusion for all the mia_material_x2s and changed the ambient shadow color and then rendered the scene.

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Turned on global illumination and emit photons and turned up the photon intensity and the number of photons to 120,000 and 100,000 respectively and turned on final gathering as I did with the global illumination and raised it's accuracy to 500

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Applied a displacement map to a new lambert material on the alien, changed the alpha offset to -.5. created subdivisions under the mental ray approximation editor, tweaked the subdivision surface quality

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created an image based lighting and turned final gathering on and turned off the default lighting, color corrected the materials and added a directional light

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Created a spotlight to cast caustics through it onto the object. I adjusted the caustic setting until I was satisfied with the result.

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attached a misss_fast_skin_maya1 material to the figure, plugged in a diffuse color map and then plugged in other maps into the specularity settings of the fast skin.

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Created a color pass and an occlusion pass layer from all of the scene objects, set up a layer override executed a batch render of the different passes

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set up 6 scene passes, upgraded the mia_material_x material to mia_material_x_passes

V-ray

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Created a NURBS plane and then created a bend deformer for the plane to make the studio floor and then made 3 V-ray rect lights