Mental ray volume caustics?

[marvin2k1]

possible or no? so far its the only effect i see xsi cant do. i have heard conflicting responses elsewhere...give me the lowdown.

[pnoizat2]

turn to page 409 of your rendering with mental ray book children...............it definately includes volume caustics, (i still dont have v2) but im sure you can access all of mental rays goodness from xsi.

[theallusionist]

'fraid not
custom mi file written for volume caustics
maybe 2.5??

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[devdoka]

Yes, mental ray can do volume caustics. You'll just need a shader to support A little work in the rendertree can give the result. Read the mental ray manual and you'll get the inside info you need to create the effect.

Matt

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Matt Lind
Animator / Technical Director
Softimage certified instructor:
Softimage|3D
Softimage|XSI
speye_21@hotmail.com

[pnoizat2]

mat, that was a great post on the brief history of the cartoon industry...
really interesting stuff.
thanks

anyone else who is interested check out this thread.
http://www.highend3d.com/boards/showflat.p...=&fpart=all

[marvin2k1]

i am assuming u mean the mray docs that are included with xsi...and not the big ass book 'rendering with mental ray'? i sure hope so, because you can save me about 50 bucks otherwise by just explaining the procedure right here. Some guy said look at page 409 or something...that its explained thereabouts; then another guy said "no, it wont work"...then another....well, you get the picture.

help a guy out and set us up a render tree scene or explanation on how to connect this to that real quick. We need to have more techniques out in the open to show what this program can really do with a little practice--then people will WANT to give it a try.

thanks