mental ray plugin for maya 2016 not installing

[Anonymous]

I recently downloaded and installed the student edition for Maya 2016 and found that the mental ray plug-in was not installed.

I downloaded the plug-in from Autodesk, but every time I try to install it I get the following error message:

The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing, or the upgrade patch may update a different version of the program. Verify that the program to be upgraded exists on your computer and that you have the correct upgrade patch.

I have unistalled and re-installed Maya 2016 several times and I keep getting this error message.

What do I need to do to get mental to install on Maya 2016 student version?

[_sebastian_f]

mr is not in the same install like maya anymore. so you have to download it seperately. first of all the install: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/downloads/caas/downloads/content/mental-ray-plugin-for-m...

and than the patch to whatever service pack matches your maya service pack! i.e. sp4 https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/downloads/caas/downloads/content/autodesk-maya-2016-serv...

the error message you get because you try to patch mr without having it installed at all.