Chapters 7, 8 and 9 done, and in the home stretch.
The first drafts of Chapter 7, “Importons and Irradiance Particles”, Chapter 8, “Effects”, and Chapter 9, “mr for Architecture” were completed over the last few weeks. The final chapter, “mr for Design”, is due on the 7th, and then I start getting back into revisions and corrections to the remaining chapters.
The mental ray “web brain” is being updated regularly: http://webbrain.com/u/10FG It is still very-much in development, but new content appears regularly, and this will accelerate as I get into the final stages of the book. The downloadable brain will not be available until after the book ships. It is my hope that this becomes a companion to users of the book, and mental ray/3ds Max users in general. I appreciate your feedback.
We (4DA) got exceptionally busy with a couple rush projects, so that set me a bit behind where I need to be for the book. We completed an architectural animation and a huge solar power plant animation in the course of two weeks. The solar power project, in particular, was exceptionally challenging. We did a project for this group last spring and had a lot of the 3d models cleaned-up and ready, however we enlisted the help of my friend George Matos, Melissa Marcy of Virtuality, and Tom Munz of Pulse Studios. We’ll get some images up in the gallery, once the gallery is in-place. I’m thinking about switching from the PHPBB to the CPG-Nuke CMS to combine PHBB with the Coppermine photo gallery, as I’ve done with other sites.
Our 3December celebration is on December 3rd 2009 at Flashpoint Academy in Chicago, and it looks like it will be wall-to-wall-people and a great event!
More soon!
Jenni
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