Faizal Taher takes a look at unified sampling in Maya Mental Ray and explains a bit about what Unified Sampling is, and how to implement it in Mental Ray for Maya, using the string options to add the Unified Sampling options to the Maya interface (in Maya 2012)
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Joseph Briggs takes a look at what unified sampling is and how to use Unified sampling in Mental Ray Maya and what the settings actually do. He then takes a look at using Brute Force
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