Random Dancing Robots The Post SigGRAPH Post
Phew!
Never did I know attending SigGRAPH would make me so busy I wouldnt have time to make a post post SigGRAPH! Oh well, now I finally take five minutes to post a post.
First, I like to remind everyone of the mental ray wiki over at mymentalray.com, which is really taking off with the good help of Martin Breidt, especially his "mental ray cookbook" section.
Secondly, SigGRAPH was a blast, although I missed much due to, as always, lots of meetings. One of the funniest events happened when some random straggler (apparently not completely awake) wandered into one of our meetings and grabbed a coffee and sat down.... after some investigation we figured out the guy was in the wrong room.... he staggered out mumbling "at least I got free coffee". He had no pants on, for some reason. ;)
Thirdly, I can finally talk about mental ray 3.6 and the new toys that come with it. As shown in various posted demos, there are some new architectural stuff, like the portal lights, which allows a really quick set up for perfect quality skylight coming in through small windows.... as well as other things.
Also included is my own little "baby", the production shader library. I promise that youll read a lot more about that in this blog as things get released. A lot.
For now, youll have to make do with watching random dancing robots.
But hey, random dancing robots never hurt anyone, did they? Thought so.
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