A couple of people have asked me about creating a material to simulate an alucobond building facade. I won’t pretend to know an exact setting for this type of material. However, I think I can give some info that will get you going in the right direction. If nothing else, maybe it will make for a decent starting point. Read on for the details.
Here’s another popular question I frequently hear: My scene looks fine with the mrSun/mrSky system but when I use a HDR it’s black. Does mental ray, iray, vray, whatever-ray not support HDRs? If this has affected you, read on for the most common explanation. Read More
I’d like to pass along some info/links/etc., that other CG artists may also find useful or interesting. Read on for the list.
Thorsten Hartmann has updated the great iray manager script. The script can be downloaded from his site HERE and the update includes:
Options:
- Resources
- Interactivity Performance (optimize Active Shader Performance)
- extendet progressive Options
- FireFly Filtering
- Matte Ground
- Background
- Clay Render
- Save/Load Options
Many thanks to Thorsten for this update and his continued efforts to provide great tools to the community like this. It is greatly appreciated.
I think the hemisphere environment mode in iray is kind of a cool deal. It’s another one of those things that’s hidden under the hood but in this blog post I’ll show how/what it is and provide a quick script to enable the mode. Read More
