What Does Mental Ray Diffuse Do In Shake Compositing?

user_deleted · February 18, 2008, 5:18am

See the following link, which is a default preset diffuse rendering in render layer.

I just want to know what does the colorful thing do in compositing ?

an idea ?

thanks

deke-kincaid · February 18, 2008, 6:08am

That is a normal pass. It is for doing relighting of a scene.

user_deleted · February 18, 2008, 11:52am

QUOTE(beaker @ 02/17/08, 10:08 PM) [snapback]281265[/snapback]
That is a normal pass. It is for doing relighting of a scene.

could u explain the relighting of scene means ?

I know how to use maya , also know how to composite elements using multi pass...but never used " normal " pass....

what u mean relighting scene ?

deke-kincaid · February 19, 2008, 12:46am

Changing the 3d lighting by using 2d methods. "Relighting" the scene in 2d.

here are a few macros which let you do relighting and other normal mapping utils for shake: