Mental ray demo at siggraph

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I was wondering if anyone that attended Siggraph this year could comment on the new Mentalray. My boss was there and saw the demo
and was quite impressed.

Regards,
Mike

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Well, it does look quite interesting, you can render passes only, so a few secs to change the reflections of stuff, but keeping color and shadows.. workflow seems impressive.

(but everytime they show something, it is always wowwww, that’s the show)

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I only spotted it briefly (at the end of a talk) but the thing that stuck out most in my mind was that you could control the sample rate of objects in reflections seperately.. so you can do a LOD on blurry reflections.. to have different objects reflect differently into the same reflection..

Fuck that makes no sense when i try and read it back :slight_smile: oh well, suffice it to say it looked nifty!

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Thanks for the replies.

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I think they ripped a lot off ideas from Vray. It looks good with some interesting new features - but it still doesn’t match this.

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As menntioned in another thread vray does that too. When using Glossiies, and interpolation you can set min/max rates in the interpolation rollout…wich is just the same.

Thorsten

P.S. and vray does it since quite a while, sooooo go figure :stuck_out_tongue:

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I think they ripped a lot off ideas from Vray. It looks good with some interesting new features - but it still doesn’t match this.

:?

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yea, i didn’t think the concept would come through correctly :slight_smile:

this is the opposite… for instance, you have a floor with a reflection, for each object reflected in that floor, you can set a different ‘quality’ of what that objects’ reflection will look like.