there is a standalone version of mental ray with maya 2009? thats news i always thought mental ray was encaplsulated within a plugin for maya and standalone mr is a separate software altogether. .....
2009/3/31 Omar Agudo <[email protected]>: > > Hi all, > > I am using the standalone version of Mental ray that comes with Maya 2009. > > I am trying to render a scene (.ma) with the standalone version of > Mental Ray, because I don´t have enough memory when rendering the > scene with the default render that comes with Maya 2009, because the > scene contains a lot of triangles and objects. In orden to save memory > I have read the tutorial > http://www.lamrug.org/resources/memorytips.html that explain some > options that comes with the Mental Ray render that improve the memory > usage, turning on flushable the memory (reusable memory). These > options are: > > * Placeholders - Reuse memory for source geometry > * Approximation - Reuse memory with fine approximation > * Texture cache - Resuse memory with tiled texture maps > * BSP acceleration - Reuse memory with large BSP > > Another problem I have found is that I can´t use the Maya comand > Mayatomr (defined in the cmds API) that provides access to most > functionalities of mental ray. > > Have someone use the mental ray render that comes with maya 2009? > > Is needed to pay another license to use the Mental Ray options > (reusable memory)? > > Why the command Mayatomr doesn´t work? > > Thank you so much!!!!! > > Omar. > > > > -- Matt Gidney --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
