Arnold for Maya is one of the most widely used rendering engines in the CG Industry, which often constituted a valid and simple alternative to the old Mental Ray for Maya. Regarding Mental Ray, you can use it for free of charge for use on a single machine, with the same restrictions for Arnold (no network render and animations). The NVIDIA ® Mental Ray plugins for Maya and 3ds Max, as well as Mental Ray standalone from November 20th, 2017 onward. There will be maintenance releases with bug fixes throughout 2018 for plugin customers. Q: What if I need to use Mental Ray beyond my subscription term? A: All Mental Ray plugin customers with a.
Enable network rendering of Maya scenes among several slave computers.
Each Maya license is permitted to distribute mental ray rendering tasks among up to four slave computers. mental ray Satellite must be installed on all slave computers. The mental ray Satellite installers for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are included in the Maya installation directory.
To install mental ray Satellite on Windows
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Copy the mental ray Satellite installer folder to each slave machine, and then double-click the installer file (.EXE).
Follow the installation steps.
Note: During the installation, you can click Custom to change the installation directory.
The default installation directory is: C:Program FilesAutodeskmrsat3.13.1-maya2016.
Manually start the mental ray Satellite service by doing either of the following:
Go to Control Panel Administrator Tools View Local Services, right-click 'mental ray Satellite 3.13.1 for Maya 2016' entry and click Start.
Launch a Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following command:
The service is installed as 'Manual' by default.
(Optional) To automatically start mental ray Satellite each time the computer starts, do the following:
In the Windows Service manager, right-click on the service name and choose Properties. Then change Startup Type from Manual to Automatic.
To install mental ray Satellite on Mac OS X
Copy the mental ray Satellite installer folder to each slave machine, and then double-click the installer file.
Follow the installation steps.
Note: During the installation, you can change the installation directory.
The default installation directory is: /Applications/Autodesk/mrsat3.13.1-maya2016
Manually start the mental ray Satellite service by entering the following command:
Restart the system.
To install mental ray Satellite on Linux
On each slave machine, log in as root.
Open the mental ray Satellite directory and go to the Linux directory.
Enter the following command (where # is the specific package number):
Manually start the mental ray Satellite service.
Note: Note that xinetd must be installed on the system for mental ray Satellite network rendering to function.
Run this command from a shell:
Hi,
we have created a new build of the NVIDIA Mental Ray for Maya plugin, version 1.2.1. The primary purpose of this update is to fix a problem with the original installer, which stopped working with latest NVIDIA driver installers on Windows. At the same time, we also addressed few minor issues in the plugin itself, and in the Mental Ray core engine.
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You can download the new version from our Mental Ray for Maya Forum for Linux, Windows, and Mac. This update is not auto-distributed through the NVIDIA Professional Application Center this time.
We would appreciate if you let us know that it works for you.