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# 1 17-04-2011 , 01:16 AM
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Mental Ray won't automatically load

So a few days ago, I tried to use an ambient occlusion texture, but I couldn't find "Create Mental Ray nodes" in Hypershade. After a bit of troubleshooting, I found that mayatomr.dll wasn't loaded in Plugins...I enabled it, Auto-load as well...but now, every time Maya starts, I have to enable mental ray through the plugin manager manually, since it will never load automatically (even though autoload is enabled...). What's the problem??

# 2 17-04-2011 , 04:17 PM
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Happens to me as well the auto-load mental ray has never worked reliably in any version of Maya I've ever used.


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# 3 19-04-2011 , 11:21 AM
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Sheesh. Well it's not that bad after all. I only use MR for AO renders (I hardly know Maya) and the MR window doesn't open! Look at the bright side user added image

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