Mental Ray vs Vray
I found out how to convert Mental Ray materials to Vray (almost) automatically today. So I decided to open up the Shanty scene from my MA which was rendered with Mental Ray and see what it looked like through Vray. Here are the results.
After the automatic conversion of most of the materials I had to deal with the misplaced opacity maps that the converter placed in the Reflection slot for some reason. I only needed to do this for the occupancy planes and the surrounding background buildings so it didn’t take long.
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- Prior to any adjustments in PS.
Looking at these together, the original vray HDRI render looks better than the one adjusted in PS. Photoshop is good, but it’s so easy to mess a scene up with it!
