Ok, I have a strange problem and need some thoughts.
In the viewport in Maya the model is sharp and detaild and when I render it with Mental ray it get worse...

Here is the viewport printscreen:


And here is the result for the render:


Here are few of my settings:


Any ideas whats wrong?

There is a diffuse, normal and specular on the model. I've used the same render setup on other props and they turned out good.

Change the Multi-Pixel Filtering to like Cat-Rom or something other than Gauss

If that doesn't work, sorry, I'm a max user, but Gauss is very blurry in Max so that's probably it

Yeah gauss is pretty awful in Maya too.

Ok I changed the filtering to "Box" (size 1) Gauss was filter size 3. Now it looks like this.


I still feel like I would like it more like the detail in the viewport version.

Turn off texture filtering on your file texture nodes.

yeah thats what I've been looking for. A sharper render ^_^ Thanks alot! Apperently I had quadratic filtering on all my textures and diff, normals.

Is this a render of a game model or whats the purpose of this? Why not go for a realtime render instead to get a more accurate "game feeling" to it?

Originally Posted by kodde

Is this a render of a game model or whats the purpose of this? Why not go for a realtime render instead to get a more accurate "game feeling" to it?

I'll do that at later since I needed renders right now and I'm not so familiar "yet" with in example marmoset or UDK. (Trying to learn) ^_^
Is that you Kostas?

Originally Posted by bloodmoon

Is that you Kostas?

The one and only

If you want even more sharpen then that, get into the "effects" tab of the texture node and put the filter into 0.1 or 0.01 instead of 1.0, that might help, it does for me anyway.