The release also introduces the new functionality rolled out last year in Mental Ray 3.14, the standalone edition of the software, and in Mental Ray for Maya, the equivalent Maya plugin. Today’s release makes it possible to use those scenes again, with Nvidia’s blog post stressing that the new plugin is “fully backwards compatible for all the functionality and data people depend upon”.Īdds new features from Mental Ray 3.14 standalone With Autodesk’s decision to stop bundling Mental Ray with its software in favour of its own Arnold renderer, legacy Mental Ray scenes are no longer compatible with 3ds Max 2018 out of the box. The first version of Mental Ray compatible with 3ds Max 2018įor many 3ds Max users, the most important thing about Mental Ray for 3ds Max will simply be that it exists. Network rendering requires commercial licences, which are available on a rental-only basis.īuying a commercial licence of Mental Ray also activates Iray for 3ds Max, Nvidia’s interactive physically based renderer, available as a separate plugin, and previously purchased separately. The plugin is free to use when rendering from a single machine.
The release integrates the new features of Mental Ray 3.14, the latest standalone edition of the renderer, including the GI Next global illumination system and support for light path expressions. Nvidia has released Mental Ray for 3ds Max, its new plugin version of the renderer, and first for 3ds Max 2018 users, following Autodesk’s decision to stop bundling Mental Ray with the software. Customers will need to purchase additional Arnold licenses if they wish to scale their rendering capability using either background processing, a render farm, or the cloud.Nvidia’s marketing graphic for Mental Ray for 3ds Max. However, it can only be used for foreground (in-product) processing. Those who are currently using Mental Ray with older versions of 3ds Max are unaffected by these changes as they have perpetual licenses.ģds Max users will be able to use Arnold out-of-the-box. These changes will affect only users who download and install 3ds Max 2018.
If you who wish to use Mental Ray with 3ds Max 2018, you can acquire it directly from NVIDIA that also allows free use of Mental Ray for foreground processing while working within 3ds Max. Arnold plug-in (MAXtoA) will be included with the 3ds Max 2018 software download, and available on the Solid Angle site. Instead the company offers access to the Arnold renderer developed by Solid Angle that was purchased by Autodesk in 2016. With the release of 3ds Max 2018 scheduled on April 12, 2017, Autodesk will no longer include NVIDIA’s Mental Ray as part of 3ds Max.
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