// ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION : RENDERING IN MENTAL RAY //

Software Used :

3ds Max and mental ray

Introduction :

Hello everybody, my name is Maxim Ganzha. After many requests from my friends I decided to write a little article about how I created my interiors. We will look thought the process of rendering one of my last works with super lighting and gorgeous composition that I made in mental ray: “Living Room”

Did you ever wonder why some interior works in galleries are more interesting than others? The main secret is in beautiful lighting settings and stylish composition. That’s exactly what we will talk about in this article. I’m not going to describe the process of modeling because in that case the article would become too long and boring.

Let’s start with the rendering!

Light Settings and Adjustments :

To start let’s open our scene and choose the mental ray render from the list of our available renders.

Open the scene (Fig.01).

Fig.01

Go to the render settings by clicking F10. In the Assign Renderer section push the Choose Renderer button and choose mental ray (Fig.02).

Fig.02

After choosing the renderer, mental ray’s shaders and materials will become available in the Material/Map Browser. Chose the material called "Arch & Design" and adjust the Diffuse color like this: the color of Diffuse RGB is about 0,8 0,8 0,8 and the other adjustments you can see in Fig.03. Also I would like to note that you shouldn’t forget to switch on Ambient Occlusion in your materials. With this adjustment the shades will look more realistic and in the corners of your scene the darkness which is peculiar to realistic lightning will appear. I put the value of Max Distance equal to approximately 3 meters (this is the distance between the floor and ceiling)(Fig.03).

Fig.03

Open the render setup. In Translator Options switch enable Material Override and put our gray material in the material slot. With this option we will fill in all our objects in scene with one material. This will help you and your system to adjust the lighting more easily. The render will be fast. The materials for all the objects in our scene will be looked at in more detail later (Fig.04).

Fig.04

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Rating: 4.58, Votes: 60

Vk3d on Wed, 15 December 2010 12:46pm

Best tutorial about rendering in Mental ray, IMHO.
Thank you, Maxim Ganzha!

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