Introduction to MTOR/Slim
 

MTOR is the interface between Maya and RenderMan.

It enables the following:

• translating Maya scenes into RIB
• animating shader params
• creating layered shaders
• creating shader networks using 'connections'
• setting up multi-pass renders for shadows, reflections and environments
• use of custom coordinate systems
• rendering of Maya's curves
• fur rendering (with or without Maya Fur)

Here are the topics for this class:

• starting up MTOR
• tour of the MTOR/Slim interface
• creating [importing] shaders ['appearances']
• rendering a simple scene
• using connections to create a shader network
• creating a layered shader
• using a 'RIBBox' shader
• animating shader params, using Maya attrs
• looking through RAT docs