От редактора.
The menial ray series of handbooks is conceived lo provide concise and up to date general and technical information about the commercially available rendering software mental ray. The series addresses the needs of professional and non-professional users of the software as well as of software developers who intend to integrate the stand-alone version of mental ray or the mental ray component software into applications that require interactive photorealistic and high image quality programmable rendering. In addition, the series provides comprehensive information to students and researchers in computer graphics, mental ray is a valuable tool for teaching and demonstrating the fundamental concepts of photorealistic and programmable rendering as well as a benchmark and catalyst for further research.
От себя. Знакомый дизайнер долго искал эту книгу, по его мнению - очень хорошее пособие по рендерингу при помощи mental ray.
Chapter 1 contains the general introduction.
Chapter 2 lists all features of mental ray, and explains the terms used. This chapter is organized by feature.
Chapters 3-19 are a cookbook-style collection of examples for using rendering techniques in an optimal way, and give hints for how to select and apply mental ray's features. These chapters arc organized by technique.
Chapter 20 lists common problems and their solutions.
Glossary is a glossary of terms.
Appendix A lists the command-line options of mental ray.
Appendix В contains scene data samples too long for inclusion in the main text.
Appendix C, D, E contain descriptions of shaders in the standard shader libraries.
