Maya mental ray - non vray related

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Heya

I have a questions to you maya pros. I have an job test going mon-wed and they are unfortunately based on maya with mental - Gotta make them buy vray tho.

Anyway I just spend 2h didling in maya and I'm literally crying like baby.... how on earth do you blend 2 shaders together ? So I can have 1 shader with sharp reflections and second with blurred... even further how do I blend 4-6+shaders together??


Also is where is tool ''place spot light''...??


Thanks, ciao.

[Morbid Angel]

You can just use vray blend material ...oh wait.

Seriously thought, if you go to data conversion section of hypershade/mental ray, you will see a mib_color_mix shader, which is essentially a blend material.
Also if you are using mia_architectural shader, there is a - additional color slot in the advanced section there, where you can nest another layer of any other shader kind of like a layered shader.

There is no good place light tool to my knowledge, but you can do - look through selected when selecting a spot light, that will allow you to aim your spot light at a target through it. Lastly you can just use ipr to position your lights.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Heya

Eeee right... I still cant get it to work.. I have 2x mi_car_paint_passes or one of other 3 and when I middle click drag it on mib_color_mix / pick color_0 I get an Connection Editor and god help me I have no idea what to do there.. I know I have to link left output to right color_0 but I cant select color_0 parameters nor have no idea which one I should pick from the car_paint shader... - can this thing be any more harder? :/

thanks, bye

[Morbid Angel]

well the car paint shader wont work like this. Since carpaint shader is generating passes (phen) it wont be able to connect directly to the color mix its not designed for that, as far as I can see there is no output there except message but color mix does not accept message. You might want to explore mix8layer (custom mental ray shader) which is a more advanced blending shader.