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Mental Ray 3.2 and Alpha Chanel

I don't get any alpha channel on Mental Ray. The option for RGB and Alpha seem to be greyed out in my Global Rendering otpions.. Anybody can help ?

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by aderium

22-05-2003|02:27 PM

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mental ray aborting?

so i've been using mental ray a lil lately and set up global illum in a scene i built, it was working fine getting good renders. last night i was...

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by Jay

27-02-2008|04:46 AM

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Mental ray ambient occlusion

Hey guys, i've been using mental ray's ambient occlusion for a while but never got around to figuring out how to contol it globally, i just turn it...

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by Gen

24-05-2012|08:28 PM

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Mental ray and directional light?

Hi. I am on my way now to getting my first render in mental ray look ok. I had it set up with spotlights and thought I should try it with a...

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by Olorin

31-12-2009|11:43 PM

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Mental Ray and Glow Effect

:banghead: Does anyone know how to make the glow effect on a shader work with MR? Does mental ray even support this effect. I.E. I have a model...

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by ade90054

13-11-2003|06:56 PM

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mental ray and subdivision surfaces

Hi folks i'm an italian industrial designer and i'm moving to the power of mental ray in maya 5. I'm personally modelling new objects facing to...

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by rocktogon

21-03-2004|10:03 AM

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Mental ray and sunlight?

im trying to light my scene with the outdoor sunlight system, where you rotate the cun and it represents real life lighting, such as night, morning,...

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by NitroLiq

15-10-2007|11:03 PM

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mental ray and V ray which 1 more powerful

mental ray and V ray which 1 more powerful??

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by publicFunction

13-06-2007|02:51 AM

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Mental Ray Batch Bake - Nothing happens when, "Convert and Close"

I am trying to create an ambient occlusion black and white texture to use in my colormap. The current model I am working with has three different...

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by Stannoman

05-07-2011|08:14 PM

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Mental ray Batch Render problem

Hi, I,m doing a simple animation with mental ray sun and sky lighting. When i render with render preview the render is just like i want, but when I...

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by Gen

08-05-2014|08:37 PM

Replies: 1

Mental Ray batch rendering

Hi, I find my Maya quits rendering prematurely when using the normal batch renderer with the program running, so i have started batch rendering by...

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by sasooo

02-03-2005|01:48 PM

Replies: 1

Mental Ray Books

Does anyone know if there are any good books on Mental Ray for Maya? I know there are some books about Mental Ray for 3ds Max but I don't know how...

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by Martel

12-10-2015|08:03 PM

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Mental Ray can't render IBL in long distance

Hi This is an emergency. I was rendering with Mental Ray Maya 8 with IBL sphere. Floor is a NURBS Plane with DGS for reflection. With the...

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by NeoStrider

03-10-2006|04:36 AM

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Mental ray crashes

why Mental ray crashes when rendering a heavy scene. I had a file in which I duplicated a detailed cartoony building 20 times and trying to render...

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by roach105

08-06-2004|03:26 PM

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Mental Ray Default Lights?

Hi everyone, I've a simple question and sorry if it was asked earlier. How do I switch back to Mental ray's default light after other lights has...

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by zestken

26-11-2012|04:49 PM

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mental ray does not support SDS?

is that true? because when i render out my scene i cant see my sds object :( please, tell me im wrong!!! v :\

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by vertiis

30-09-2003|01:19 PM

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Mental Ray doesn't render

Hey, I use Maya Unlimited 6.0(.1), and I have a problem when I want to render with mental ray. I doesn't. Everytime I try to render something with...

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by metallicjet66

12-04-2005|10:56 AM

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Mental Ray download

Hello, I read that you'll need to download Mental Ray 1.5.1 for Maya 4.5 unlimited. Is it true that Mental Ray in not already in the 4.5 pakache?...

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by Vampus

10-08-2003|04:50 PM

Replies: 9

Mental Ray Error

I am having a very annoying problem with mental ray. I have some xGen hairs on my model and whenever I go to render the image this error shows up //...

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by xStreetWolfx

11-11-2014|05:47 PM

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mental ray fog prob

hi I am using mental ray for maya 1.5.1...Its a normal scene which is being lit by an HDR image by mapping the image onto a sphere as described...

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by jooji

17-05-2003|05:51 PM

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Mental ray for mac

There seems to be an issue with Menal Ray and Mac Os X. When opening the Hypershade and selecting create mental ray nodes, only one nodes of all shos...

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by aderium

07-04-2003|10:28 PM

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mental ray for maya 4.0 ?

is there a mental ray plugin for maya 4.0 unlimited? where can i buy it , and what version is it ?

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by NitroLiq

22-11-2003|04:00 AM

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Mental Ray globals have stoped coming up

For some reason when I switch to render with mental ray the maya render globals keep coming up instead of the mental ray globals. It only started...

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by DrRobotnik

10-04-2004|12:53 AM

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Mental Ray help please.

Hi, everyone. I'm starting to learn Mental Ray, and I ran into this problem while trying out a "simple" GI scene. ...

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by herr_klaus

05-10-2005|11:19 AM

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Mental Ray in 2008 problem

In Maya 2008, whenever I add a transparency map and render it in Maya Software it renders normally, but when I render in Mental Ray, the transparency...

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