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How do I use the Mental Ray rendering plugin in Maya 2017?

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Anonymous
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How do I use the Mental Ray rendering plugin in Maya 2017?

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I tend to be an airhead with installing and using new software for the first time, so can anyone explain to me how to actually use the free version of Mental Ray? I'm a cheapskate and don't want to use the paid version (but I don't need to anyway, only to render some stills). I'm on Windows 7 and use Maya 2017, and so I downloaded Mental Ray 2017. I've installed both "mental-ray-for-Maya-2017-WIN-1.0.1" and "mental-ray-standalone-for-Maya-2017-WIN-1.0.1". The README text file mentions a script that should be run, and I did that - now I don't know how to actually access the plugin within Maya.

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How do I use the Mental Ray rendering plugin in Maya 2017?

I tend to be an airhead with installing and using new software for the first time, so can anyone explain to me how to actually use the free version of Mental Ray? I'm a cheapskate and don't want to use the paid version (but I don't need to anyway, only to render some stills). I'm on Windows 7 and use Maya 2017, and so I downloaded Mental Ray 2017. I've installed both "mental-ray-for-Maya-2017-WIN-1.0.1" and "mental-ray-standalone-for-Maya-2017-WIN-1.0.1". The README text file mentions a script that should be run, and I did that - now I don't know how to actually access the plugin within Maya.

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sean.heasley
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Hi @Anonymous

 

If you open the plug-in tab via the Windows drop down menu you should see a plug-in for Mental Ray you can check to load and auto load.

 

Let me know if this solves your issue!

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Hi @Anonymous

 

If you open the plug-in tab via the Windows drop down menu you should see a plug-in for Mental Ray you can check to load and auto load.

 

Let me know if this solves your issue!

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sean.heasley
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sean.heasley
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Hi @Anonymous just checking in, are you still having this issue?

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Hi @Anonymous just checking in, are you still having this issue?

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