The first version of Mental Ray compatible with 3ds Max 2018įor many 3ds Max users, the most important thing about Mental Ray for 3ds Max will simply be that it exists. Network rendering requires commercial licences, which are available on a rental-only basis.īuying a commercial licence of Mental Ray also activates Iray for 3ds Max, Nvidia’s interactive physically based renderer, available as a separate plugin, and previously purchased separately. The plugin is free to use when rendering from a single machine. The release integrates the new features of Mental Ray 3.14, the latest standalone edition of the renderer, including the GI Next global illumination system and support for light path expressions. Nvidia has released Mental Ray for 3ds Max, its new plugin version of the renderer, and first for 3ds Max 2018 users, following Autodesk’s decision to stop bundling Mental Ray with the software. The support of 64-bit systems and multi core processing allows MultiScatter to create and render, for example, forest or even a city in a blink of an eye.Nvidia’s marketing graphic for Mental Ray for 3ds Max. Now with MultiScatter it is possible to create the whole forest of wind-shaken woods. This allows the application of polygon models without missing productivity and capacity of RAM.Īnimated objects support and animated VRayProxy support allows creating huge amounts of animated objects. Another outstanding MultiScatter ability is uploading and downloading from VRayProxy memory if needed (as and when necessary). Those very 500 000 objects are created in only 2 seconds before rendering. The most exciting feature of MultiScatter is a quick generation of an array of objects right before rendering. Now, if it is created with MultiScatter and still containing the same 500 000 objects the scene can take just 250Kb.

The scene containing 500 000 identical objects created with 3ds max 2008 occupies 1400Mb of HDD space. MultiScatter is created to solve these problems. Usually scenes in 3ds max with a great amount of even identical objects take a lot of space on HDD, consumes a lot of time for loading, and it is very hard to work with. It is possible to create complicated scenes with a huge amount of objects easy and quickly with the aid of this plug-in. MultiScatter is a plug-in for 3ds max which works with V-Ray, Mental Ray, Corona and Octane rendering systems.

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