Chapter 19. Lighting

By Adrian Dimond

In this chapter, you learn about technical issues associated with achieving photorealistic lighting. I walk you through some advanced lighting techniques and show you a few very new ways to light inside Maya using the recently adopted Mental Ray for Maya plug-in. If you need more in-depth information on lighting issues, you might read Digital Lighting and Rendering (New Riders Publishing, 2000) by Jeremy Birn; or, check out Birn's web site, www.3drender.com/.