Presets vs. programming shaders.

[pluMmet]

I hope we can get into both. Info on the programming of mr shaders seems to be harder to come by :cool:

[mymental]

Have you try this book? i use it all the time. I really like it

http://www.mentalimages.com/2_1_3_literature/images/buch2.jpg

Volume 1:
Rendering with mental ray
Thomas Driemeyer
Second, revised edition (with cd-rom)
Springer Verlag Wien New York

[pluMmet]

No but I will. Thank you!

[shikuku]

Hi... I'm recently looking for books to order from the amazon.com

I'd read up about the book that is mentioned above. But the title "Programming Mental Ray" sounds more like it's gonna be involved with lotsa thing related to programmers like C++ or so on(I'm kinda noob here about programming)

I'm looking for a book that have good explanation on various shader functions and effects that can be achieve in combining shaders.

I wonder if " Programming Mental Ray " will help~

And a... I'll definitely wish to see if anyone will kindly feedback about what type of book are "must have" for mental ray, architectural photorealistic rendering reference.

Thanks 4 reading!!!:p