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  Lighting and Materials
Overview:
Choosing a light for best effect will depend on your choice of renderer. This course will be fine tuned to either Scanline (default) or Mental Ray where the selection is crucial for best results. The course will contain the elements listed below and you can move thro this at your own speed. The course lasts 2 days.
Location:
Your offices or London or Oxfordshire. You can save money by having the training at your own location, or we can arrange it here or in London. The idea is to provide the best service for you. If you have the software already loaded onto your laptop, then use your own machine.
Mental Ray  
 
Intermediate: Lighting and Materials
2 days

You may have used Max for some time but crave better images. Somehow your renders just don’t match up to some published images. Well, the default settings you’ve been using are only the beginning and you will be amazed (and relieved) to discover how to adjust lights and materials to improve your Max renders. .
Course content:
Choosing a light:
What does it do, why and what resources does it use. We look at the upsides or downsides to using different lights or settings.
Shadows:
There are many styles of shadow making and each has its own unique look.
Lighting setups:
We look at industry standard lighting setups. The ideas behind them and why they make sense. The you can tweak them to suit yourself.
Materials:
Easy to use materials associated with Pro bitmaps that make Mental Ray come alive
Arch+Design materials:
Designed for mental ray with pre-sets for designers. More to play with than Pro Materials and more to go wrong.
Car Paint Material:
Designed to reproduce the complex surface of a car paint job.
Glass Material:
Making 3d glass behave like glass is so many ways
 

Location.

The great advantage of one to one training is that training can be at either your location or ours.
We can travel to anywhere in Europe for your convenience, arrange training rooms in London or you can come here to CUK in Oxfordshire.

Your Choice:
Default Scanline Renderer or
Mental Ray, please chose when booking your course.

  
   
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