Rendering with Mental Ray Book

1	Overview	5
2	Scene construction	31
3	Cameras	39
4	Surface shading	49
5	Light and shadow	133
6	Volume rendering	165
7	Caustics and global illumination	177
8	Motion blur	237
9	Hardware rendering	245
10	Contours	261
11	Shaders and phenomena	271
12	Postprocessing and image output	291
13	Geometric objects	303
14	Instancing and grouping	371
15	Inheritance	379
16	Incremental changes and animations	393
17	Using and creating shader libraries	399
18	Parallelism	405
19	The options block	417
20	The architecture of mental ray 3.x	431
21	Quality and performance tuning	437
22	Troubleshooting	463
	Color plates	469
A	Command line options	487
B	The sphere and Utah teapot models	517
C	Base shaders	525
D	Physics shaders	567
E	Contour shaders	587