Re:Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip
by bhouston on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:35AM
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> Mental ray is no longer heavily used in the industry for feature films
Mental Ray really isn't used anywhere. It sort of died like more than a decade ago.
Honestly, I used it back in 2003 in the VFX industry, but not since.
You have to be mistaken here. No one uses Mental Ray that I have heard of in production in the last decade. Probably someone does, but not anyone serious.
Mental Ray really isn't used anywhere. It sort of died like more than a decade ago.
Honestly, I used it back in 2003 in the VFX industry, but not since.
You have to be mistaken here. No one uses Mental Ray that I have heard of in production in the last decade. Probably someone does, but not anyone serious.
Autodesk doesn't even sell licenses of Mental Ray and I believe you will find it hard to buy them from NVIDIA as well: https://www.autodesk.com/products/mental-ray-standalone/over...
Are you thinking iRay? Still made by NVIDIA and uses GPU acceleration.
The default renderer in Maya, 3DS Max is Arnold these days, others use V-Ray, RedShift, Octane, RenderMan, etc....