{"id":1737,"date":"2012-09-07T03:48:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-07-22T16:36:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T16:36:56","slug":"lmt1-6-exploring-mental-ray-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/07\/lmt1-6-exploring-mental-ray-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Texturing:1.6 Exploring Mental Ray Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mental Ray Materials<\/h2>\n<p>Mental Ray offers materials and shaders useable oly with Mental Ray.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Turn on Mental Ray\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Go to MAIN || Window &gt; Setting\/Preferences &gt; Plug-In Manager.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/07\/lmt1-6-exploring-mental-ray-materials\/lynda_materialstextures__038\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"lynda_materialstextures__038\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__038.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Go to <em>Mayatomr.mll<\/em> and check <em>Load and Auto Load.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/07\/lmt1-6-exploring-mental-ray-materials\/lynda_materialstextures__039\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1739\" title=\"lynda_materialstextures__039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__039.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Set your Renderer to <em>mental ray<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; Click on the <em>Render Settings<\/em> button.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Make sure you have Mental Ray selected.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/2012\/09\/07\/lmt1-6-exploring-mental-ray-materials\/lynda_materialstextures__041\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1743\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1743\" title=\"lynda_materialstextures__041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lynda_materialstextures__041.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Create a NURBs sphere\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; RIGHT CLICK on your surface and select <em>Assign New Material&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Under POPUP WINDOW || Mental Ray &gt; Materials.. select Materials. <em>(This brings up the materials for mental ray on the right side)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Select <em>mi_car_paint_phen<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; Open up the IPR render window and adjust the parameters to see the attributes you can modify.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental Ray Materials Mental Ray offers materials and shaders useable oly with Mental Ray. Turn on Mental Ray &#8211; Go to MAIN || Window &gt; Setting\/Preferences &gt; Plug-In Manager. &#8211; Go to Mayatomr.mll and check Load and Auto Load. Set your Renderer to mental ray &#8211; Click on the Render Settings button. &#8211; Make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autodesk-maya","category-textures-for-maya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manibogstudios.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}