No one uses mental ray anymore... Autodesk is killing it and putting Arnold with Maya (I'm assuming since they just bought solid angle.) Mental ray Pros: -free with maya - for the most part physically plausible materials. - A really nice layered material system Mental ray Cons: - integration with maya is poor and even…
Yeah, same benefits coming from Max really: Mental Ray is free. The biggest problem right now, is that it isn't aging very well... and boy is it slow. VRay is nice and fast, and I've been using it for a few animation projects now.
mr is developed now by nvidia themself and its not dead... it will come back... huge... a lot of R&D was done... if you are interested apply for the betatest.... but in the meanwhile use vray and take a look at redshift... blizzard for example rendered the overwatch cinematics with red...…