you can use mentalray for render to texture, but i use it to render scenes. like i said game art is only part of what i do with max, i have been making more music videos latley so game specific enhancements are not as important to me as they use to be. i would take stability and speed over new features anyday and max 9…
i have been using 9 for awhile now. the preformance increase is worth it alone. everything happens at least twice as fast as it use to. i am more than happy with the update, i also like the new hidden wire view and the various mental ray updates are very nice. if you just using it for low ploy work you probably wont care…