Mental ray essentials -- Materials and maps -- Light, shadows, and exposure control -- Rendering -- Indirect illumination and final gather -- Global illumination and caustics -- Importons and irradiance particles -- Effects -- Mental ray for architecture -- Mental ray for design
Summary
"If you're a busy artist seeking high-end results for your 3D, design, or architecture renders using mental ray, this is the perfect book for you. It distills the highly technical nature of rendering into easy-to-follow steps and tutorials that you can apply immediately to your own projects. The book uses 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design to show the integration with mental ray, but users of any 3D or CAD software can learn valuable techniques for incorporating mental ray into their pipelines"--Resource description page
