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# 1 26-02-2003 , 03:27 PM

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Hey there!
I'm Zombra
I'm new to this site and I'm new to Maya. I'm learning very fast though.
In a few days I've learned a lot from Modelling to Rendering an animation with skeletons and everything. It's chill!

well, I have a question!

I recently got myself Mental Ray for Maya which is a Rendering Plug in.
I installed it and I don't know how to activate it.
In fact, I don't know how to active any plug in. user added image

How do I run plug ins in Maya? Specially, Mental Ray!

Thankx for any help!
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# 2 26-02-2003 , 03:33 PM

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Hi Zombra,

to load plugins, do the following...

go to "Window"... --> "Settings/Preferences"... --> "Plug-in Manager"... and select the ones you want to load... user added image

regards

Strarup

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# 3 26-02-2003 , 03:59 PM

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To use the mental ray plug in;

Press h + MMB klick (I think) to open up a temporary default marking menu, and select "rendering".

Then look under "rendering" and select "use renderer", and select mental ray, as opposed to maya renderer.

To access the FinalGather+GlobalIllumination+Caustics menus in mental ray, look in the render global, more specificly at the "Quality" setting, and change this to, say "preview final gather" , or "production" to get some "better" default settings.

Menal ray is also used for usual raytracing (not sure what the difference is, but I assume there are)

The two different render globals can also be accessed from the "renderview" window.

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# 4 27-02-2003 , 02:03 PM

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Thanks a lot guys for replying and for your help

I'm going to try all of this and i'll write back to tell you my results

Thanks again!!!
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