Autodesk has long forgotten about the mental ray renderer, for greener pastures with Solid Angle’s Arnold. This was good news for most people. For others, it meant that generations of older project would become incompatible with newer versions of Maya. Revisiting a project that used mental ray in a newer version of Maya could spell problems.
The good news is that mr has gone back home, and will be again available for Maya as a plugin renderer, starting November 30. Mental ray for Maya will be available directly from NVIDIA – for free. You will only need a mental ray license for production (rendering sequences, network, or batch) rendering. If you are only rendering still frames, mental ray can be downloaded and used for free.
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There are some changes in Mental Ray itself. The new release will be easier to use, and has GPU acceleration for what NVIDIA calls GI-Next. Testing has a one-hour render dwindled down to a 5 minutes by adding an NVIDIA Quadro P6000 graphics card on a 14-core CPU.
. Includes the Autodesk Genuine Service which tests for certain types of non-genuine Autodesk software. For more information click here. Mental ray for Maya will be available directly from NVIDIA – for free. You will only need a mental ray license for production (rendering sequences, network, or batch) rendering. If you are only rendering still frames, mental ray can be downloaded and used for free. There are some changes in Mental Ray itself. Download Mental Ray for Maya 2016-2018 Latest Version for Windows. It is full offline installer standalone setup of Mental Ray for Maya. Mental Ray for Maya 2016-2018 Overview. Mental Ray for Maya 2017 is an imposing rendering application and it supports the ray tracing for generating images.
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Enable network rendering of Maya scenes among several slave computers.
Each Maya license is permitted to distribute mental ray rendering tasks among up to four slave computers. mental ray Satellite must be installed on all slave computers. The mental ray Satellite installers for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are included in the Maya installation directory.
To install mental ray Satellite on Windows
- Copy the mental ray Satellite installer folder to each slave machine, and then double-click the installer file (.EXE).
- Follow the installation steps. Note: During the installation, you can click Custom to change the installation directory.
The default installation directory is: C:Program FilesAutodeskmrsat3.13.1-maya2016.
- Manually start the mental ray Satellite service by doing either of the following:
- Go to Control Panel Administrator Tools View Local Services, right-click 'mental ray Satellite 3.13.1 for Maya 2016' entry and click Start.
- Launch a Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following command:
The service is installed as 'Manual' by default.
- (Optional) To automatically start mental ray Satellite each time the computer starts, do the following:
- In the Windows Service manager, right-click on the service name and choose Properties. Then change Startup Type from Manual to Automatic.
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To install mental ray Satellite on Mac OS X
- Copy the mental ray Satellite installer folder to each slave machine, and then double-click the installer file.
- Follow the installation steps. Note: During the installation, you can change the installation directory.
The default installation directory is: /Applications/Autodesk/mrsat3.13.1-maya2016
- Manually start the mental ray Satellite service by entering the following command:
- Restart the system.
To install mental ray Satellite on Linux
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- On each slave machine, log in as root.
- Open the mental ray Satellite directory and go to the Linux directory.
- Enter the following command (where # is the specific package number):
- Manually start the mental ray Satellite service. Note: Note that xinetd must be installed on the system for mental ray Satellite network rendering to function.
- Run this command from a shell: