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Turning on mental ray?

Gingerkiwi
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Gingerkiwi
Hey guys,
Does anyone know how to turn Mentalray on in Max 2012, the renders people get out of that look amazing, and i cant seem to get anything of the sort so i think my mental ray is turned off, any suggestions?

Many thanks

Kiwi
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  • oglu
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    oglu polycount lvl 666
    edit: sry i was to fast... i though you are working with maya...


    you have to load the mayatomr plugin in the plugin manager and restart maya...
    in 2012 mr is integrated trough extension attributes... so you cant turn them off and on during a running session...
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  • Piflik
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    Piflik polycounter lvl 12
    Open the render dialog, scroll down to 'assign Renderer' and choose Mental Ray instead of Scanline.

    But he renderer is not really that important, when it comes to image quality...it all comes down to models, materials and lighting...
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  • Gingerkiwi
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    Gingerkiwi
    Ah great thanks! Yeah, its just I wanted to know how as i hear loads of people using it, i just need to think of some things to start slowly with, im 15 and i'm "Trying" to learn modelling
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