Getting Mental Ray to Render Vertex Color

meanvel

Having issues getting mental ray to render color. Maya hardware renders just fine. I enabled "Use Vertex Colors" in the MR options. No go... Anyone got any ideas?

throttlekitty

You'll need to add a mentalrayVertexColors node, connecting each object's color set to that*, then the color output goes to a shader or wherever.

*Easiest done in the node editor. Documentation page.

meanvel

Hmm... Not having any luck. I'm using the polyPaintImporter plugin. Going to need to find a video guide...

meanvel

Well, I got the first link done. Can't figure out how to link to my Shader...

meanvel

Ok, I figured out how to do it easily with the Node + Connection Editor in hypershade. Thanks for the help! Ready to roll now.