mip shaders in Maya 2010

As you might know the mip shaders are not exposed by default in Maya, this is still true in Maya 2010.

I have modified the factory script mentalrayCustomNodeClass.mel to expose all the mip shaders in Maya.

You can download the script here: http://kobayashystips.section-5.com/download/maya/2010/mentalrayCustomNodeClass_maya2010.zip

Tutorial on mip shader in Softimage

Digital Tutors launched their new online tutorial library. This new learning platform is extremely well done, watching tutorial online beats buying DVD's in my opinion.

You can register for a free trial here http://www.digitaltutors.com/09/register.php

In the free tutorial you can watch 8 videos on using the mental ray production shaders in Softimage. I found these tutorials interesting.

I played with the mip shaders before, but I still learned a few thing in these tutorials.