mental ray and vray

[lyca]

little stupid question,

 

if we use mental ray shaders and vray shaders in max, and assign the vray as renderer, what do max do ?

are both shaders, mr and vray treated as vray in rendering ?

[AJLynn]

No, a mental ray material, a shader that's written for mental ray only, or an Arch&Design(mi) material, will only work with mental ray (and a VrayMaterial will only work with Vray). The only exception I've seen is that the new version of finalRender can use Arch&Design(mi) materials.

[Justin Hunt]

Thats interesting that MI shaders can be used by Finalrender, do you know if this is intentional or not?

 

JHV

[AJLynn]

Yes it is. They also have a finalRender Arch&Design with the same functions as the mental ray one, so I guess they just put in a translator.

[Justin Hunt]

Very clever move, if there is a translator then I suppose other mi shaders can be used as well

 

JHV

[AJLynn]

I don't think it actually works with mental ray shaders, it just reads off the settings from the Arch&Design material and interprets them like it's a finalRender Arch&Design material. So you could have a scene set up for mental ray and translate it a lot faster because most material settings don't need to be changed, or if you got a library of A&D materials you could use them. But you couldn't, for example, make a tricked-out old-school mental ray material and use that.

[Justin Hunt]

pitty, it would open up the Finalrender market share a bit if it could.

 

JHV