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Create a mental ray area light
mental ray for Maya Lighting
Global illumination and caustics workflow
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Render with global illumination and caustics
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Global illumination and caustics workflow
Set up mental ray for Maya raytracing
Turn on photon emission for a light source
Flag objects to cast and receive photons
Set scene-wide photon tracing overrides
Render with global illumination
Tweak color bleed
Render with Caustics
See the distribution of photons