Most of the time these days I start with something I know is right for the
quality - usually 1,2, threshold 0.1 - and just let it go unless the frame
time starts to go through the roof. At that point there's a number of things
you head straight for, more often than not BSP. The rest of it is just being
sensible about what you aim for and what settings on the things in the scene
that are potential killers. Which prompts me to say, remember, it's not just
render settings that make for expensive frames.
I don't think you need to wade through the full set of pages every time;
once or twice to get the basics is probably enough but I do think you should
get at least a loose understanding of how rendering works at this level.
It's not really that hard.
Demian Zarins writes:
I know optimizing MR is highly related to the scene properties. I do
however
think that there could be some more intuitive ways (without reading the 30
page Cookbook
that came out for XSI 1.5 each time) of helping users to analyze and
optimize the MR settings,
maybe based on somekind of wizard setup that lets you fill in the info
that you know about
your scene and then having the wizard give you some qualified guesses? If
you give enough
info on what your scene looks like it might be able to at least give u a
hint on what settings should
be punched up our down and with what increments to fine tune? I find it
quite tedious doing all
this manually at the moment. I guess if you sit with this kind of stuff
everyday you get a hang
of it but for me who uses it sporadically it´s damn hard to get fast
optimized MR settings.
/D
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Re: MentalRay render presets (for Max)
What's this got to do with XSI anyway?
That text just looks like vague promotional jargon.
luc froehlicher wrote:
and the newcomers won't make the effort to understand what's going on
under
kim aldis wrote:
You can't build optimised presets for mental ray rendering without
knowing something about the scene you're rendering. This applies to
both quality and speed. Looks like a waste of time to me.
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*From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
*On Behalf Of *Demian Zarins
*Sent:* 27 May 2005 13:50
*To:* xsi(at)Softimage.COM
*Subject:* MentalRay render presets (for Max)
Someone care to comment?
http://euqahuba.com/stuff/mr_prime/
*/mR_pRime/* is a script for */Autodesk 3dsmax 7 and 7.5
/*containing preset render settings for the included mental ray
renderer. Each preset have been carefully optimized for both speed
and quality, resulting in easy and quick view of your renders.
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