Graphics Programs Reference
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Motion Blur with mental ray
Now that you have a primer on quality settings in mental ray for Maya, let's see how motion
blur works. In Maya Software rendering, as you saw previously, turning on motion blur is
easily done through the Render Settings window. It's the same with mental ray.
Try this:
1. Load the
Planets_motionBlur.ma
scene file from the Solar_System project on the CD.
This is an animated scene of the Solar System with just the first few planets and
moons, as shown in Figure 11.37. A blast from the past!
Figure 11.37
The Solar System
project is back!
Figure 11.38
A render of frame 75
shows the planets in
motion without any
motion blur.
2. Open the Render Settings window. The scene should already be set to render with
mental ray. If your scene isn't, make sure the mental ray for Maya plug-in is loaded,
and set the scene to render with mental ray.
3. In the Common tab, set Frame/Animation Ext to
name.#.ext, Frame Padding to 3, Start Frame to 1,
and End Frame to 100.
4. Set the Image Size to 640
×
480 for now, and leave
the renderable camera to persp.
5. Go to frame 75, and render a frame from the persp
panel. Figure 11.38 shows the result.
6. In Render Settings, click to open the Features tab.
In the Rendering Features heading, select No
Deformation in the Motion Blur drop-down menu,
as shown in Figure 11.39. This setting is the faster
