Very well done. I like specially the shower shots.

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Thanks a lot! Sometimes tight spaces like showers can be a pain to render; I resorted to the cutaway-style here to show the client how the tile would look. Not my most artistic work, but the clients love this kind of stuff!

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Oooh nice!

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I take advantage of you to ask you a question: you use Maya (I see from this render)... I'm really interested in Vue, as you already know, but I want to know how it integrates with Mental Ray. On EON'S page they of course say it's seamless, but before giving them the money I really want to make sure that I can use it along with XSI (I mean to use Vue X-Stream). Any experience with that? (MR-Vue, this means MAX, Maya, XSI)?

Thanks in advance

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"Why?"
"She's an angel in bed and a whore in the kitchen."
"I thought it was the other way around."
"Not yesterday night."

[Danny Crane and Alan Shore, in "Boston Legal"]</sub>

Glad you asked before spending extra money on Xstream.

I've read on CGTalk that Vue integrates with Max okay, but it is completely and utterly useless for Maya. Not only will it crash constantly if you load the plug-in, but it outright doesn't work. It's a flawed product; I ended up only using Xstream 7.2 in standalone mode. Since my company paid for it, I didn't mind much, but were it up to me I'd just get Infinite.

I'm not sure how it works with Softimage; perhaps someone at CGTalk might know? They have a Softimage-only forum, as you likely already know, as well as a Vue forum, which I'm active in under the name "InfernalDarkness". So far I've not talked to anyone who had Xstream functionally working inside Maya.

Here's the Softimage forum, if you need it:

[link]

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Whoa. Thanks a BUNCH for these infos.

No, the CGTalk forum doesn't have any useful information on this issue. Not even HighEnd3D and other similar sites. But I can try to make an inquire there and see if someone had this experience.

This sucks. Okay, XSI is way more stable than Maya, but I won't afford such an expense if I'm not 100 percent sure it will work, so your info is incredibly useful. Like this, I will use the free PLE and export OBJs or Collada files directly into my XSI scenes, or find a similar solution.

But I will ask specifically at CGTalk and in Ed Harris' website.

Thanks, man.

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"Why?"
"She's an angel in bed and a whore in the kitchen."
"I thought it was the other way around."
"Not yesterday night."

[Danny Crane and Alan Shore, in "Boston Legal"]</sub>

Anytime, my old friend!

I generally export from Maya to Vue, not the other way around, which is damnable since that cuts out mental ray entirely. But for "artistic" scenes and landscapes, Maya is not a viable solution really, unless one has 16+GB of RAM or more.

So for work, like this scene, I stick to mental ray and Maya, and for "art" I tend to use Mudbox and Maya but render out in Vue. Of course, just depends on the subject matter...

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I'm mildly interested in making pure landscape scenery. This little interest I think could be easily satisfied with the free PLE edition. It would be a whole different thing if the Vue/XSI integration would be great... I'll ask. The integration between MR and XSI is absolutely perfect, and I spent the last years studying MR: I don't want to render with something else. Remember that I'm an hobbyist, so spending that money is really a big, big effort and it *has* to be justified in some way.

I agree with your approach. For scenes like this one, MR is perfect. (I'm not a big fan of Maya, as you can imagine from my comments). I will ask and in the meanwhile I will try the Vue PLE.

Thanks again for the precious advice, my friend

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<sub>"You know, Alan, Bev is the woman of my dreams."
"Why?"
"She's an angel in bed and a whore in the kitchen."
"I thought it was the other way around."
"Not yesterday night."

[Danny Crane and Alan Shore, in "Boston Legal"]</sub>

Indeed, after five years of mental ray it's difficult to take the results of any other renderer seriously. I'd love to be able to export a Vue scene to Maya wholesale and make it work... But we've both seen amazing outdoor/landscape scenes rendered in MR, so maybe just keep working at it?

You're far from a hobbyist, my friend...

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