Customers who need to scale their rendering will be able to choose the renderer that best supports their needs, whether it is mental-ray, Arnold V-Ray, Renderman, Octane, Redshift or another third party renderer. Moving forward, we will no longer include licenses for NVIDIA’s mental ray with Maya, instead, customers will be able to use Arnold as the default out-of-the-box renderer for foreground processing. With the release of Autodesk® Maya® 2017 on July 25 th 2016, Autodesk will replace the rendering software it includes with Maya.
mental ray is still being developed by NVIDIA, you’ll just have to get the software from them.Īutodesk has a long write up on Mental Ray in the Autodesk Knowlege Network. I’m glad that I chose to figure it out in Arnold, since it’s the direction that Autodesk has taken Maya, however, I just want you to know that you do have another option. However, I had another solution that I could have made happen instead. See Maya 2017: Goodbye Mental Ray, Hello Arnold! I was making a green glass bottle and learned how to do the same effect with Arnold. The problem was that the tutorial used a MIA material. I’m not advanced enough yet in Maya to just figure it out on my own, but with a few Google searches, I realized that mental ray was no longer available and I found a work around with Arnold. The Arnold renderer in Maya 2017 is fantastic, however, I was looking at a tutorial a couple of weeks ago for Maya 2016 and it used mental ray MIA_Material_X. Last week I wrote about Working with Arnold Shaders in Maya 2017 and talk a bit about how mental ray was discontinued in this version. Changes to rendering in Autodesk Maya 2017
This is really only a problem if you’re opening older projects or want to follow an older tutorial that uses it. mental ray is no longer being licensed by Autodesk.
In Maya 2017, Autodesk has replaced NVIDIA’s mental ray with Arnold for Maya software.
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