translating vray settings to mentallray???

[elboogie2008]

hey guys hows it going? I wanted to know if any of you guys has used vray and mentalray and can decipher the controls on both of them...I guess I'm trying to say.. if i saw a vray tutorial i really liked is there a way to look at the vray settings and translate them to work in mental ray?

[Braiz]

There is no eassy "one-click-solution" to this one. Although both Vray and mental ray has the option of converting scene materials to either vrarMtl or Arch & design. But the settings are always converted directly, giving incoherent results.

But a genereal rule of thumb would be, that vray materials has a very sensitive settings ratio. Meaning that a glossiness value og 0.6 in an arch & design material, would be the equivalent of 0.75-8 or so in a vray material and vise versa.

As for render setup, it's more complicated. If you run into a specific situation, post it here and will try to help the best I can..

Hope this answers you question...

[Braiz]

I really need to start looking at the thread date before posting... echo echo

[Domino]

no prob