Mental Ray for Maya questions

[bbennett]

mental ray for Maya will ship this month (December) and will require V4.0 of Maya.

[MayaLuvr]

Hi dude,

So there will NOT be a version for 3.0??

I find this suprising....especially when you consider MTOR and MayaMan both work with 3.0 and 4.0...

Anyone from A|W able to confirm this???

Regards,
Paul

[meshsmooth]

A|W are realy bad about giving info out on there products..release dates etc, i have heard the a/w plan to realese mental ray this month but i can find no info about it on there site, iv also heard that it will work with maya 3..

another option for anyone intrested in metal ray is http://www.uberschmuck.com/raytools/index.html

this guy has said he would release a demo months ago but so far nothing.. i think he may be planing to find out pricing and other info from a/w when thay realease there version

[bbennett]

Paul-

See my posting above. I am from A|W and can confirm that mental ray for Maya will require the current version of Maya on Windows NT/2K or IRIX - that is V4.

Bob

[meshsmooth]

bbennett,
can you give any info on when it might be released

[SheepFactory]

Does all the material types and utility nodes of maya work with mental ray? , or does the mental ray plugin adds new nodes etc?

A|i

[bbennett]

mental ray for Maya will support procedural shading networks through its tight integration with existing Maya nodes, plus programmable shading capabilities through support for custom text

Bob

[SheepFactory]

Sounds great !

now if only alias gives it for free like softimage.....:D


A|i

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