Online Exercise: Global Illumination Exercise— Introducing Maya

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In this PDF document you will light a living room scene in Maya using mental ray’s Global Illumination. This exercise was originally printed in Introducing Maya and is being provided on the CD-ROM for Introducing Maya as an extra exercise for the readers.

Topics in this PDF include:

A light’s mental ray attributes
Global Illumination
Adjusting GI settings

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