I don need to render anything of super photorealistic quality, can I just use Mental Ray for ormal stuff?
Yes you can. Mental Ray is an all-round good renderer, not just for photoreal film animation/effects. It’s fast and reasonably simple to use for every-day renders of your models and scenes. However, if you’re just starting out in Maya and like to experiment with all of Maya’s great crazy features, you might be better off sticking to the Maya Software renderer. Just so that you don’t have to worry about any compatibility issues. > I really like Mental Ray! Can I set it to be my default renderer in Maya? Yep! Go to: Window > Settings/Preferences > Preferences From the left hand side list of catagories, click on Rendering. Then in the main section on the right, select Mental Ray as your preferred renderer. Note, if you don’t have the Mental Ray plugin set to ‘autoload’, next time you start Maya there could be problems because it won’t be able to find it’s preferred renderer! > What does Mental Ray have that the Maya Software renderer doesn’t have? Well, a lot of things really. Some of the
