Ashraf Aiad takes an explorative look at the MIA Photometric Light Node for Mental Ray Maya – pretty good stuff right there.
mia_photometric_light Node explored – Tutorial from Ashraf Aiad on Vimeo.
“In this session we will have a closer look at the mia_photometric_light.
This node is not only allowing you to achieve more realistic lighting , but it will also make your GI solution much easier and faster to work with.
In the past one would have to adjust both photon Radius and Merge Distance. Now with this node the guessing portion is gone, you simply add the node to the light custom Shader and voala !”
