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no mental ray in material editor

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:20:45 GMT

Hi,

I recently installed 3dsmax 2015 win64. I realized that mental ray was missing in material editor.

I tried to reinstall, same problem.

I look in the plugin manager, and every plugins for mental ray are loaded.

I tried to rename the folder ENU in AppData folder to force to restart the interface, still nothing.

Can you help me?

Fred

Re: no mental ray in material editor

Steve_Curley — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:02:36 GMT

MR Materials are hidden (incompatible) unless MR (maybe IRay or Quicksilver, not sure) are the current renderer. Although it is possible to show Incompatible materials it is not advisable as they may not render properly, if at all.
Open the Render Settings dialog, scroll to the bottom, expand the Assign Renderer rollout and select Mental Ray.