Mental ray sun

Mga bro at sis here is a simple tutorial on 3dsMax's "other" render engine - Mental Ray.
This is just a basic tutorial on how to setup Mental Ray sun as the primary light source for an exterior scene render.
You must have Mental Ray as your primary render engine to use this simple exercise.

Step 1. Open your scene.

Step 2. On the Create tab, go to Systems and click on Daylight.


Step 3. A dialog box will pop up asking you to change your Exposure control. Just hit Yes.

You should have something that looks like this.


Step 4. Now go to Modify tab and change your sunlight into mr Sun.


Step 5. Also, change your sky into mr Sky. A dialog box will ask you again like in the image, just click Yes.



Step 6. Now, hit render! This is how it would look like without materials.


That's it.


Here are a few more images from the scene with some materials and some tweaks.

kasama ba sa mr ung clouds and sun?

ty for sharing dude!

yung clouds is another story.
i'll put up another tutorial bukas. day-off ko bukas! yipee!

wow thanks bro! mukhang ok to ah!

logikpixel wrote:yung clouds is another story.
i'll put up another tutorial bukas. day-off ko bukas! yipee!

but can you do that in MR?

yes, sa mental ray lahat yan. walang post processing for the sunlight and the clouds in the background.

yung "sun" na nkikita sa "sunset" image ay ang mr Sun in its honest to goodness render.

oi ayos mental ray naman...! more tutorials sir...

"MR RULES" Galing nito....sabi ko na nga ba marami ring MR user dito....simple lang pero "ROCK"

thanks men....i like this tuts...

torvicz wrote:kasama ba sa mr ung clouds and sun?
ty for sharing dude!

theres no clouds that can simulate to the mr rendering. either you can use sky jpeg map or hdri map. but with ozone ( plugins its possible)

MGA MASTER GANYAN DIN GINAWA, DUN SA TRELLIS MO NA KULAY BROWN OK UNG OUTPUT, SA AKIN PO MAGIGING LIGHTER SYA KUNG RENDER KO NA, WAT PO ADJUST KO, DAYLIGHT UNG GINAMIT KO SA LIGHTS KO

roycristobal wrote:MGA MASTER GANYAN DIN GINAWA, DUN SA TRELLIS MO NA KULAY BROWN OK UNG OUTPUT, SA AKIN PO MAGIGING LIGHTER SYA KUNG RENDER KO NA, WAT PO ADJUST KO, DAYLIGHT UNG GINAMIT KO SA LIGHTS KO

sir roycristobal magbasa po muna tayo ng forum rules. bawal po ang naka ALL CAPS.

Punta ka sa Exposure Control>Exposure Value mababang values mas malakas ang araw pataas mas darker ang sun pakipost mo yung nirender mo para makita namin...

Maraming ibang pwedeng dahilan kung bakit light ang ouput mo. Baka hindi naka-set ang gamma settings mo ng tama. Basa ka sa forum dito lang kung pano i-set ng tama. Pasencya na at nasa bakasyon ako ngayon. Wala ako pc para bigyan kita ng screengrab kung paano at saan makikita pero marami ka mababasang guide dito lang sa cgpinoy.

tnx mga master, beginner pa lng kc ako, saan ko po makikita ung gamma n pano iadjust

sir kaunting help po new by lang po sa max, sa cad po ako nagmomodel then import ko sa max, the problem is, pag nag set ako ng light, sobrang dilim ng ceiling eaves ko, kahit i adjust ko yung settings ng lights, tsaka udjust ng position ganun parin madilim padin, pero other objects sa sceen ok naman po, (im using multi sub object pag dating sa roof eaves tsaka sa roof), kaunting tip sir, salamat po.. God Bless!!

Sir,

Pano po gawin yung clouds? hehe.. Thanks

You rock!

lemuell wrote:sir kaunting help po new by lang po sa max, sa cad po ako nagmomodel then import ko sa max, the problem is, pag nag set ako ng light, sobrang dilim ng ceiling eaves ko, kahit i adjust ko yung settings ng lights, tsaka udjust ng position ganun parin madilim padin, pero other objects sa sceen ok naman po, (im using multi sub object pag dating sa roof eaves tsaka sa roof), kaunting tip sir, salamat po.. God Bless!!

Sir pakispecify kung anong lights ang tnutukoy mo daylight ba yan o sa interior what render engine mo mental ray or vray paki-post kung maaari screenshot ng macheck ng mga masters pra matulungan ka.

rendernewbie wrote:Sir,

Pano po gawin yung clouds? hehe.. Thanks

You rock!

please check:
http://www.cgpinoy.org/mental-ray-tutorials-f44/clouds-t3541.htm

Sir, why is it that I'm getting a black image of the sky?

lemuell wrote:sir kaunting help po new by lang po sa max, sa cad po ako nagmomodel then import ko sa max, the problem is, pag nag set ako ng light, sobrang dilim ng ceiling eaves ko, kahit i adjust ko yung settings ng lights, tsaka udjust ng position ganun parin madilim padin, pero other objects sa sceen ok naman po, (im using multi sub object pag dating sa roof eaves tsaka sa roof), kaunting tip sir, salamat po.. God Bless!!

CAD has a way of inverting faces randomly. Check if inverted ang polyface nung eaves mo. The only explanation I can offer you right now. Hope this helped.

rendernewbie wrote:Sir, why is it that I'm getting a black image of the sky?

Check your environment. It should read MR skylight. Read the tutorial on setting up mr sun and sky here on the mental ray forum of our site. Try setting up a new scene, if you encounter the same problem, consult our tutorials.

lemuell wrote:sir kaunting help po new by lang po sa max, sa cad po ako nagmomodel then import ko sa max, the problem is, pag nag set ako ng light, sobrang dilim ng ceiling eaves ko, kahit i adjust ko yung settings ng lights, tsaka udjust ng position ganun parin madilim padin, pero other objects sa sceen ok naman po, (im using multi sub object pag dating sa roof eaves tsaka sa roof), kaunting tip sir, salamat po.. God Bless!!

Sir pakicheck mo muna units ng 3ds max mo against dun sa model ng cad mo baka nakameter or ibang units ang max mo tapos gawa mo sa cad is mm pagpasok sa max malaki(kasi maraming zero) kaya pagadjust mo ng ilaw madilim pagx-ref mo kasi ng cad sa max may mga option na lalabas kapag mali ka ng convert pwedeng malaki or may mga nawawalang parte o naiiwan baka isa din dun ang problema check mo mabuti mga option.
Sana makahelp kahit papano...

thanks for this mga bosing tatambayan at aabangan ko mga update nyo

d ko n alam ang sasabihin ko sayo sir...