First mental ray work

[AlecMoody]

This is my first mental ray work. Comments and improvements are welcomed. Render times were about a 20 minutes to a half hour for the original 2k image. The glass is a dialectric shader and its lit with an HDR and final gather.

http://www.alecmoody.com/miscfiles/small_renders.jpg

[AlecMoody]

Here are the more important render and material settings. Please let me know what can be optimized.

http://www.alecmoody.com/miscfiles/setup_01.jpg

[Myron78]

this is beautiful, I like how the gold on the label reflects differently. the one thing I'd look into is that the cap is too perfect. I'm not sure how to do this with MR shaders, it can't be much different, but pipe something into the specular to break that up alittle. don't overdo it though, just subtlely <-- is that a word?

[AlecMoody]

Yeah, I should swap the blinn I have for the cap with a DGS.