IRay enables users to easily achieve complex lighting effects with real-world light physics to create high-quality images quickly.īoth the mental ray and IRay plugins can be used within Autodesk's 3ds Max software for efficient, high-quality 3D rendering.

On the other hand, the IRay plugin offers a simplified approach to rendering by utilizing NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated ray tracing technology. The plugin supports multi-core processing and can leverage a GPU for even faster rendering times. The mental ray plugin provides users with a powerful tool to create photorealistic images using features such as global illumination, caustics, and physical sky simulation. Among the many tools available, Autodesk offers plugins for two rendering engines developed by NVIDIA: mental ray and IRay. offers a wide range of 3D modeling and animation software for professionals and hobbyists alike. But sometimes it would be fine to be able to work with MR too.Autodesk Inc. Is there any workaround or which version of Mental Ray I should use? Lucky me has also VRay and I will do my new projects with it. When I downloaded it from the NVIDIA Advanced Rendering it also says, that it is version 1.0.1. But when I register in the NVIDIA Professional Application Center it says, that it should be MR version 3.14 f or 3dsMAX2018. The installed Version 'NVIDIA Mental Ray for 3dsMAX 2018' shows a version 1.0.1. But it seems, that MR has a very different code than the previous version. I have NVIDIA licenses of MR to work with Max2018.

MSG 0.0 92 MB error: Texture map 'Map #10 ( Forest Color )' is not supported by Mental Ray and will not render. MSG 0.0 71 MB warn : expected structure 'E' missing from 'm' shader declaration

MSG 0.0 71 MB error: The transformation matrix for object '_forest_template_One Plane|Instance(Mesh00)' contains a zero scale in (x/y/z), which is invalid. There are different warning messages from the renderer, which doesn´t came up when I render the same scene in 2017. But some of them only in black (HQ-Plants). In version 2018 the presets for lawn etc. I have bought VRay for some reasons but I also work on older projects with Mental Ray.

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