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mental ray for Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI: A 3D Artist's Guide to Rendering | 
 enlarge | Author: Boaz Livny
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 15333
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 740
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0470008547
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780470008546
ASIN: 0470008547
Publication Date: February 20, 2007
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Product Description
Turn 3D models into film-worthy digital animations by mastering mental ray rendering once and for all. This must-have guide is the only book on the market to focus exclusively on mental ray in Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI, and it's packed with techniques and insights you can't get anywhere else. Best of all, the book's advanced rendering concepts apply to other rendering software as well, including V-Ray, Brazil, Maxwell and RenderMan. Discover advanced lighting, camera, and workflow techniques that usually take professionals years to figure out.
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 Mental ray Maya,3ds, XSI---Excellent!! July 9, 2008
This book is the book that goes under the hood of the mechanics of mental ray. I learned so much by reading it. The MR features in all three apps are equally explained. The author describes the topics in detail:
Shaders,Shaders and more... (Architectural shaders little explanation)
Final Gathering and Ambient Occlusion
Subsurface Scattering
Indirect Illumination
Textures and projection, and more....
A Bonus chapter on Surface Approximation on CD
I recommend it to all CG artist.
For Intermediate Users June 8, 2008
This book is for Intermediate users. If you are just starting out with Mental Ray I wouldn't suggest that you purchase this book. So far from what I can tell this book is a great learning tool.
 mental ray- excelente guia avanzada May 14, 2008
el libro es netamente tecnico. abarca tantos conceptos importantes para comprender el manejo de la iluminacion indirecta, el uso de fotones, final gather,, sombreadores, teoria de iluminacion etc.
ES un completo manual que permite comprender con mayor exactitud el manejo de mental ray y saber realmente que es lo que sucede cuando modificamos un valor. con este libro uno comprende el porque delas cosas.
y lo mejor es que no se centra en un solo programa, abarca hasta 3.
con este libro mental ray es mucho mas facil de comprender.
Must have for all serious mental ray users April 28, 2008
Every serious mental ray user needs to have this book and actually read it. this is not a quick guide, its an extensive reference. Plan to spend some time with this book and a highlighter pen, read and reread it. Considering it has information in mental ray stand alone, Maya, Max, and XSI its pretty amazing. This is not the kind of book you whip out on the job just to figure out which preset shader to use, its detailed information on how mental ray actually works. If you seriously study this book and really understand it, you will master mental ray. The fact that it might be slightly out of date with regards to the mia shader in Maya is rather irrelevant. if you really understand this book then you'll understand what every setting in the mia shader actually does which is much more important. I'm about half way through it. my only criticism is that it could have more hands on examples, however their are plenty of other sources for that.
Use mental ray? This is the one book you need on your shelves April 17, 2008
Being a self-study mental ray enthusiast, I've turned to three things in my path to becoming a skilled mental ray user and now a professional in the field, working with it daily.
As such, I've turned to forums, to books and video dvd's. All three have very little information available about mental ray, a situation which has slowly improved in last three years, but during this time only one gem has really emerged: the item at hand, Livny's must-have mental ray guide.
The book takes various topics from the original and very difficult Driemeyer mental ray books - which are application independant - and puts them in a more readable form in this massive seven-hundred page book. Livny understands what's really important when using mental ray, the deep knowledge of how things work, which help the user get to the result they - and their client - needs, faster and better.
Differently from other mental ray books, Livny also handles the topic of third party and customization options of mental ray, covering various shaders and plugin options.
Since the book covers three different applications that have mental ray integrated seamlessly, the book is also very useful to rendering experts who have to jump working platform every now and then.
This is however not a book recommended for beginners, far from entry level, I personally recommend this book to average to advanced level students and enthusiasts.
Thumbs up, a pleasant surprise from a generally unknown author and publisher and a book I'll be recommending to mental ray users everywhere.
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