Customers will need to purchase additional Arnold licenses if they wish to scale their rendering capability using either background processing, a render farm, or the cloud. However, it can only be used for foreground (in-product) processing. Those who are currently using Mental Ray with older versions of 3ds Max are unaffected by these changes as they have perpetual licenses.ģds Max users will be able to use Arnold out-of-the-box. These changes will affect only users who download and install 3ds Max 2018. If you who wish to use Mental Ray with 3ds Max 2018, you can acquire it directly from NVIDIA that also allows free use of Mental Ray for foreground processing while working within 3ds Max. Arnold plug-in (MAXtoA) will be included with the 3ds Max 2018 software download, and available on the Solid Angle site. /rebates/&.com252f2017252f3DSMAX252f3dsMaxReleaseNotesMentalRay2SP3. Instead the company offers access to the Arnold renderer developed by Solid Angle that was purchased by Autodesk in 2016. But sometimes it would be fine to be able to work with MR too.With the release of 3ds Max 2018 scheduled on April 12, 2017, Autodesk will no longer include NVIDIA’s Mental Ray as part of 3ds Max.

3D models are natively compatible with 3DS Max 2010 or higher (V-Ray, Mental Ray, Corona. Is there any workaround or which version of Mental Ray I should use? Lucky me has also VRay and I will do my new projects with it. Older PBR textures may be available in PNG or JPG formats only. When I downloaded it from the NVIDIA Advanced Rendering it also says, that it is version 1.0.1. But when I register in the NVIDIA Professional Application Center it says, that it should be MR version 3.14 f or 3dsMAX2018. The installed Version 'NVIDIA Mental Ray for 3dsMAX 2018' shows a version 1.0.1. But it seems, that MR has a very different code than the previous version. I have NVIDIA licenses of MR to work with Max2018. MSG 0.0 92 MB error: Texture map 'Map #10 ( Forest Color )' is not supported by Mental Ray and will not render. MSG 0.0 71 MB warn : expected structure 'E' missing from 'm' shader declaration MSG 0.0 71 MB error: The transformation matrix for object '_forest_template_One Plane|Instance(Mesh00)' contains a zero scale in (x/y/z), which is invalid. There are different warning messages from the renderer, which doesn´t came up when I render the same scene in 2017. But some of them only in black (HQ-Plants). In version 2018 the presets for lawn etc. I have bought VRay for some reasons but I also work on older projects with Mental Ray.

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