Vray rt is to vray what iray is to mental ray a vray port to work on dedicated nvidia cuda technology. The flagship rendering software has set the industry standard for speed, reliability, ease of use, and render quality. Hello everyone, i am a rhino user and i currently use 3ds max mental ray for my architectural renderings. We need to change our way to think a little bit between v2 and v3. It primarily uses the reyes algorithm but is also fully capable of doing ray tracing and global illumination. The release of mental ray is discontinued as of 20 november 2017. Yet mitsuba, octane and vray all came very close in the end, and are all quite equally noisefree. However i would like to switch to vray, but i dont know if the best solution for me is to stick to 3ds max and learn vray or to stay in rhino for the renderings and learn vray. Use maya shader for vray proxies f or scenes created before vray 3. Usually 2k movies use an rendering time of about one hour per frame, while hollywood mainstream movies have resolutions of 2k, 4k, 6k, and 8k, and each quality time will increase by four times. I was actually quite impressed with the uv mapping from sketchup. From watching him work with it, vray looks like its a bit more userfriendly and less technical than mental ray. To enable sequence rendering, batch rendering and rendering on a network, youll need full production licences of mental ray.
I wanted to do a comparison, so this is a showdown of the 3 render engines i could get access to, and that i could make work on my system. Determines whether a proxy is going to be rendered with materials connected to the original mesh, or materials connected to the proxy instance. Vray vs mental ray comparison, test and speed benchmark. Why v ray is better than mental ray i too started with mental ray, and i didnt switch because of the render times, or even image quality really because i think its just as capable. Speed compare 2 rasterisation furryball with cpu renderers furryball vs vray, furryball vs arnold, furryball vs mental ray, furryball vs renderman speed compare for biased rendering no gi, no raytracing, if renderer support speed compare 1 unbiased rendering, physically based full global illumination with 3 light bounces. Poliigon material converter addon for maya poliigon help center. Mar 20, 2017 if you need to buy mental ray, its a bit on the pricey side and is a yearly subscription, unless you have one of nvidias pro graphics cards, where its less. The same properties are also present in every shape of a maya node. So far, my experience with vray has been mostly very good, and i find it significantly better than the mental ray experience in maya. Sep 12, 2019 hello everyone, i am a rhino user and i currently use 3ds max mental ray for my architectural renderings. The most important one is the standard vray material, this will be the base for most of the materials you will create. If playback doesnt begin shortly, try restarting your device. The course instructor swears by v ray because, according to him, its so much faster than mental ray.
Vray next for sketchup now with support for sketchup 2019 sketchups most powerful rendering plugin by chaos group. The battle mental ray vs v ray started many years ago and it seems that v ray won in any aspect so far. You have a lot of renderers to choose from with maya. From watching him work with it, v ray looks like its a bit more userfriendly and less technical than mental ray. Theyre improving the interface a lot as of late and since its free anyway you should give it a shot and see if you like it. Instead the company offers access to the arnold renderer developed by solid angle that was purchased by autodesk in. Speed compare 2 rasterisation furryball with cpu renderers furryball vs vray, furryball vs arnold, furryball vs mental ray, furryball vs renderman. I do miss some aspects of mental ray as well, especially with materials. For details see mental ray and iray product updates. I work with mental ray it comes standard with maya and i like it. For all users and lovers of mentalray and mental ray as we used to call it lately, in case you did not notice, i have sad news.
May 30, 2017 we need to change our way to think a little bit between v2 and v3. Create highquality previz and animation tests via playblasts. Mayas native renderer is fast but lacks things like gi, hdri, caustics. Floating renderman licenses can be distributed across a network as needed, allowing the full utilization of all licenses on the renderfarm to. Interior scenes are quite problematic to render since an important part of the lighting. In this test, we are mostly focused on the outofthebox capabilities. Prman is produced by pixar animation studios and used to render all of their inhouse 3d animated movie productions.
Download unitys free digital asset packs for the heretic. Mentalray vs vray in maya 2016 andrei serghiuta freelance. New material swapper script that should replace the maya and mental ray mat to vray script for conversion of maya materials to v ray mats and back. Photorealistic renderman, or prman for short, is a proprietary photorealistic rendermancompliant renderer. I used mental ray already and am interested to hear your thoughts, thank you by used i mean watched digital tutors tutorials about it and rendered a few images myself, but not an expert. Paul dreisen graciously provided the original script but i tend to convert more between mayas materials and vray than mental ray mats and i wanted to beef up the accuracy of conversion thats. Current customers who have purchased licenses from nvidia will continue to receive support, software updates through our advanced rendering forum for the remainder of their subscription.
Continuing to use mental ray or other nonbundled third party renderer v ray, renderman etc. Lightwave 3d modo rhinoceros 3d silo terragen vray vue zbrush sketchup. Mental ray vs vray nowadays it is extremely difficult for artists to decide what render engine they are going to use. I switched because when i hit my memory limit in mental ray which was 6gb at the time then it. Home forums 3dsmax scriptswanted vray to mental ray. If you need to buy mental ray, its a bit on the pricey side and is a yearly subscription, unless you have one of nvidias pro graphics cards, where its less. Also, for larger projects or environments, the v ray proxy objects perform quite well. Render high resolution images using vray or mental ray. Mental images was bought in december 2007 by nvidia.
As the leading render farm in the cg industry, fox renderfarm will answer this question in a personal opinions. Render high resolution images using vray or mental ray by jamie cardoso. Nvidia is releasing mental ray for maya for free cg channel. To avoid this, cancel and sign in to youtube on your computer. Photorealistic renderman, or prman for short, is a proprietary photorealistic renderman compliant renderer. In the end, i just decided to reduce the finalgather settings a bit and reduce the render time significantly. As the name implies, it supports ray tracing to generate images. Here is some tips for setting up mental ray standalone for maya users successfully. This change does not affect existing licenses of mental ray standalone, which remain valid.
Nvidia will no longer offer new subscriptions to the mental ray plugins for maya and 3ds max, as well as mental ray standalone from november 20, 2017 onward. Instead, customers will be able to use arnold for foreground insession processing in addition to scanline, quicksilver and autodesk raytracer art. Use maya shader for v ray proxies f or scenes created before v ray 3. As of april 1, 2017, autodesk is ending the sale of mental ray standalone to new customers. If the scene involves complex calculations such as particles and fluids, a frame may take more than 10 hours of rendering time. A single renderman license can be used either for batch rendering or for rendering with an artist seat. The vraymtlrenderstats can be used to specify additional render settings on a permaterial basis. Mental ray had a very slow development in the last 45 years and it didnt get any exciting new feature or update. Vray benchmark standalone app for testing cpu and gpu. Yet mitsuba, octane and v ray all came very close in the end, and are all quite equally noisefree.
With the release of 3ds max 2018 scheduled on april 12, 2017, autodesk will no longer include nvidias mental ray as part of 3ds max. V ray next for sketchup now with support for sketchup 2019 sketchups most powerful rendering plugin by chaos group. We have created an faq to help explain this change. Another disadvantage of the mental ray setup was the more limited finalgather solution, which was much slower in generating a similar amount of bounced light in the scene as the vray gi. Render engine comparison cycles vs iray vs renderman. Personally im not a fan of vray and max as its very hard to get the same qualityintent as maya and mental rayrenderman and a.
This article contains answers to frequently asked questions. Vray is a commercial plugin for thirdparty 3d computer graphics software applications and is used for visualizations and computer graphics in industries such as media, entertainment, film and video. Vray gpu cuda now renders on cpus as well as gpus, to take full advantage of all available hardware. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to. Also, for larger projects or environments, the vray proxy objects perform quite well. Sep 12, 2014 3ds max 2018 maxtoa plugin arnold interior lighting part 34 duration. I use vray all the time and find that the shaders are a bit lacking.
Anyway mental ray 2017 puts on the table some very good features at a. Read nvidia is releasing mental ray for maya for free. It also has a native hardware renderer and a vectorswf renderer to. In maya 2017, autodesk has replaced nvidias mental ray with arnold for maya. As we know, blender, maya and cinema 4d, all are 3d production software, and they can all make 3d animation.
System here are the specifications for my machine that i did the testing on. While todays fast computers may ensure rendering crashes are less and less frequent, there are still instances when processing high resolution photorealistic renders will cause computers to freeze and ultimately crash. Anyway mental ray 2017 puts on the table some very good features at a cheaper price than v ray. Mental ray stylized as mental ray is a productionquality rendering application developed by mental images berlin, germany. With the release of autodesk 3ds max 2018 software scheduled on april 12, 2017, autodesk will no longer include nvidias mental ray as part of 3ds max. As if nvidia didnt get enough exposure from my post, ill end this part with max prefers nvidia cards in all price segments so youre always better suited to choose an nvidia card over amd, even if you dont plan to use either iray or vray rt.
This has come because of the exponential improvements undergone by older render engines. Why vray is better than mental ray i too started with mental ray, and i didnt switch because of the render times, or even image quality really because i think its just as capable. Blender vs maya vs cinema 4d, which one is the best 3d software. Bundling a single interactiveonly license wont make anybody but the smallest facility or freelance operation consider changing renderers imo. The battle mental ray vs vray started many years ago and it seems that vray won in any aspect so far. I know that vray for 3ds max is really powerful and has tons of free online materials, which vray for. If you want to test drive this 3d rendering software, download the free. Stop your render at any point and continue where you left off. Most of the rendering tools can produce mindblowing renderings if. I am using autodesk maya 2016 and wondering which render engine should i choose, mental ray or v ray.
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Paul dreisen graciously provided the original script but i tend to convert more between mayas materials and v ray than mental ray mats and i wanted to beef up the accuracy of conversion thats. Continuing to use mental ray or other nonbundled third party renderer vray, renderman etc. In this post, we test most of the major revit rendering tools. Its true, there are far more tutorials and forums on mental ray. The same settings can be accessed through the object properties, but if this material is used, it overrides those from the object properties. Ive been working with an old version of vray for a few years now, but lecturing in mental ray, so im very familiar with both.
The course instructor swears by vray because, according to him, its so much faster than mental ray. Here are some of the advantages that i found to be extremely beneficial in everyday use. Over the past few months i have been playing around with vray for maya, and also with adapting the material design method popularized by grant warwick to a maya workflow. I wouldnt call this a highend computer, maybe a mediumhigh computer at best. Mitsuba for being really fast and having great results directly out of the box. Instead the company offers access to the arnold renderer developed by solid angle that was purchased by autodesk in 2016. Nvidia is to make mental ray for maya, the new plugin version of its production.
May 20, 2007 you have a lot of renderers to choose from with maya. Videos you watch may be added to the tvs watch history and influence tv recommendations. Speed compare for biased rendering no gi, no raytracing, if renderer support speed compare 1 unbiased rendering, physically based full global illumination with 3 light bounces. Theres also a blend material, which can be used to blend several other materials together to create more complex, layered materials. Blender vs maya vs cinema 4d, which one is the best 3d software for animation. V ray gpu cuda now renders on cpus as well as gpus, to take full advantage of all available hardware. As a brand new user to maya, this change comes at a great time. Added to this is the stiff competition between gpubased and cpubased render engines. I switched because when i hit my memory limit in mental ray which was 6gb at the time then it would crash the render. Renderman and maxwell are 2 you might also want to look at. Blender vs maya vs cinema 4d, which one is the best 3d. Vray benchmark is a free standalone application to help you test how fast your hardware renders.
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