One of these days I'm going to write a basic tutorial on the mentalray render system as found in 3D Studio Max.
I've just climbed the learning curve on "glossy reflections" and "max reflection distance", chopping my render times down by about 75% in some instances. Also when I had some free time this week (haha, there's a joke right there) I also made broke a bit of ground with "photon mapping", once again giving a time saving on photo-realistic renders.
Mentalray can produce some really fantastic images with a little understanding, but it tends to take a billion years to do so. It's only with a lot more understanding that you can get it to spit out similar images in an acceptable time.
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