Rendering: Mental Ray Missing from Render Globals

[neutronic]

if ya think that mayatomr is a plugin... :)

[Strob]

A lot of people seem to have this problem: mayatomr is sometimes unloading when maya crashes. so you have to go in your plugin manager to load it back again.

If you load it and you still have an error, see in your output window for more info.

I had this problem after opening a file with the misss shader ( it was a file I did on another computer) and it seems that it changed my maya.rayrc file...

Anyway I had to edit my maya.rayrc file by replacing this line:

registry "{MAYABASE}" value "<INSTALL DIR>/mentalray" end registry

byt this one
registry "{MAYABASE}" value "C:/Program Files/Alias/Maya6.5/mentalray" end registry

[visjes]

I find that if you close Maya very soon after starting it (like while there're still things going on for initialisation) for whatever reason, it doesn't save what plugins it was set to auto-load. Real pain in the butt. Most likely this is what has happened, so go into Window->Settings / Preferences->Plug-in Manager and find Mayatomr.mll and click that for Auto Load and also Load, then goto file->save preferences and exit.

[Velk]

Thanks, everyone! You really hit the nail on the head, its working perfectly now (much to my relief).

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