Lucky CG World: Gnomonology-DAYLIGHT FAKE GI LIGHTING RIG FOR MAYA

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Gnomonology-DAYLIGHT FAKE GI LIGHTING RIG FOR MAYA

The Daylight rig simulates Global illumination without using GI. It is fast, simple, and all you have to do is import it into your scene and the default presets yield great results. The rig works with Mental Ray and all you need is Maya 8.5 and above. The rig comes with three presets to get you started, sunrise or sunset, mid day and late afternoon.
GI looks fantastic for stills, but once you try to have a character move through the scene, you will often get a lot of flickering and speckling because of the nature of GI. It is possible to minimize this by increasing your GI samples or by adding Final Gather to the solve, but not without increasing render times. To solve this problem, Leonardo came up with a solution - make a daylight rig that looks like GI, that wont flicker, and that renders quickly.

Info
http://gnomonology.com/tutorial/347

Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/170025055/DLR.zip

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