Vray for Maya - 2 sided shader test 2 - bushland environment

An experiment with my old forest scene - this time using Vray for Maya - 2sided shaders - (sun + HDRI) - click to enlarge.

Vray for maya - 2 sided shader test 1

Playing with VRay for Maya's 2Sided Translucent shader.

02. HDRI lighting of ferns with Pysical Camera + Depth of field

 01. Glossy leaves - Vray Sun & Sky

More network tweaking to be done....

Forest Environment - Maya, Paint Effects, Mental Ray, After Effects

After watching some wonderful tutorials by Alex Alvarez on creating plants in Maya's paint effects and rendering them in mental ray I figured I'd have some fun and create some of the plants I see in Sydney when bush walking. These Paint Effects plants have been converted to Polys and have been instanced along a poly plane.

I plan to keep growing a library of plants and trees so I can quickly make environments and animate them.

Here are two useful scripts.... 

1. The SpPaint Script 

2. The  Leaf UV Tool 

Software Used - Maya, Mental Ray and After Effects. 

Tests: