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Old 11-02-2007
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Originally Posted by multimediaman View Post

You see, I find mental ray to be quite limiting, since you can't have anything other than shadow mapped and raytraced shadows for your lights.
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The Mr Spot and MR Omni have area light options ... have you tried them ? Much finer and more realistic control than area shadows.

Have a look at a tutorial I wrote about different lights in 3ds Max and Mental Ray :

TUTORIAL MR LIGHTS : DM Multimedia - Studio 3DS Max Tips and Tutorials - Full Tutorial - Schnorbill Lighting

Dave

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