I was just curious to know why none of the tiffs would work.
I think they were just being generated with a LZW compression from mudbox which resulted in mental ray failing to read them. Saved them...

Cool, ok thats the exr problem solved.
However none of the tiffs are working. File format subtype or version not supported error. I've turned on tiffFloatReader in plug-in manager thinking maybe...

Thanks for your help.
Turns out that mental ray doesn't like the type of file it is. Strange considering I'm pretty sure this is what other people use. It didn't like the 8bit RGBA tif or any of...

Hi All.
So basically I plug in a displacement map into a shader, assign to object and when I go to render in mental ray production quality preset settings it begins the render process but then stops...

i'm building a new computer specifically for use of 3D graphics software such as Maya, and other media editing/creating software as well as some gaming and i need to know what graphics card would be...