Mental Ray

The industry’s top rendering solution available as a standalone product for Autodesk 3D products.

Mental ray^® Standalone software is a high-performance rendering engine for generating images, from stylised to photorealistic. Although mental ray rendering technology is featured in certain Autodesk applications: Autodesk^® Maya^® 2012, Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® 2012, Autodesk^® 3ds Max^® Design 2012 and Autodesk^® Softimage^® 2012 software, the standalone version is best suited for larger-volume rendering projects.

Mental Ray

Mental ray Standalone is an offline rendering product. It works independently of Maya, 3ds Max, 3ds Max Design and Softimage software through a command-line interface, or acts as the foundation of a distributed rendering solution when used with Maya, 3ds Max, 3ds Max Design or Softimage. mental ray Standalone is used primarily when additional rendering capabilities are required beyond the built-in mental ray capabilities of these Autodesk applications. mental ray is typically used in an internal render farm setup and can be used to supplement and accelerate interactive rendering (for example, Maya software’s interactive photorealistic rendering).

mental ray® Standalone 2012 software delivers new features and enhancements designed to help studios to produce higher-volume, higher-quality renderings for today’s complex film, television and design visualisation productions in less time. With accelerated performance and enhanced quality, support for advanced shaders plus extended use of open file formats, mental ray Standalone 2012 offers a professional solution to artists and developers seeking to get more from their renderer. Furthermore, mental ray Standalone 2012 continues to take advantage of hardware advances to power its innovative iray^® interactive rendering technology, with support for new GPUs.