Mental ray sun

Mga bro at sis here is a simple tutorial on 3dsMax's "other" render engine - Mental Ray.
This is just a basic tutorial on how to setup Mental Ray sun as the primary light source for an exterior scene render.
You must have Mental Ray as your primary render engine to use this simple exercise.

Step 1. Open your scene.

Step 2. On the Create tab, go to Systems and click on Daylight.


Step 3. A dialog box will pop up asking you to change your Exposure control. Just hit Yes.

You should have something that looks like this.


Step 4. Now go to Modify tab and change your sunlight into mr Sun.


Step 5. Also, change your sky into mr Sky. A dialog box will ask you again like in the image, just click Yes.



Step 6. Now, hit render! This is how it would look like without materials.


That's it.


Here are a few more images from the scene with some materials and some tweaks.

kasama ba sa mr ung clouds and sun?

ty for sharing dude!

yung clouds is another story.
i'll put up another tutorial bukas. day-off ko bukas! yipee!

logikpixel wrote:yung clouds is another story.
i'll put up another tutorial bukas. day-off ko bukas! yipee!

but can you do that in MR?

yes, sa mental ray lahat yan. walang post processing for the sunlight and the clouds in the background.

yung "sun" na nkikita sa "sunset" image ay ang mr Sun in its honest to goodness render.

oi ayos mental ray naman...! more tutorials sir...

"MR RULES" Galing nito....sabi ko na nga ba marami ring MR user dito....simple lang pero "ROCK"

thanks men....i like this tuts...

torvicz wrote:kasama ba sa mr ung clouds and sun?
ty for sharing dude!

theres no clouds that can simulate to the mr rendering. either you can use sky jpeg map or hdri map. but with ozone ( plugins its possible)

MGA MASTER GANYAN DIN GINAWA, DUN SA TRELLIS MO NA KULAY BROWN OK UNG OUTPUT, SA AKIN PO MAGIGING LIGHTER SYA KUNG RENDER KO NA, WAT PO ADJUST KO, DAYLIGHT UNG GINAMIT KO SA LIGHTS KO

roycristobal wrote:MGA MASTER GANYAN DIN GINAWA, DUN SA TRELLIS MO NA KULAY BROWN OK UNG OUTPUT, SA AKIN PO MAGIGING LIGHTER SYA KUNG RENDER KO NA, WAT PO ADJUST KO, DAYLIGHT UNG GINAMIT KO SA LIGHTS KO

sir roycristobal magbasa po muna tayo ng forum rules. bawal po ang naka ALL CAPS.

Punta ka sa Exposure Control>Exposure Value mababang values mas malakas ang araw pataas mas darker ang sun pakipost mo yung nirender mo para makita namin...

Maraming ibang pwedeng dahilan kung bakit light ang ouput mo. Baka hindi naka-set ang gamma settings mo ng tama. Basa ka sa forum dito lang kung pano i-set ng tama. Pasencya na at nasa bakasyon ako ngayon. Wala ako pc para bigyan kita ng screengrab kung paano at saan makikita pero marami ka mababasang guide dito lang sa cgpinoy.