Mental Ray Materials

Mental Ray offers materials and shaders useable oly with Mental Ray.

1. Turn on Mental Ray
   • – Go to MAIN || Window > Setting/Preferences > Plug-In Manager.
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   • – Go to Mayatomr.mll and check Load and Auto Load.
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2. Set your Renderer to mental ray
   • – Click on the Render Settings button.
   • – Make sure you have Mental Ray selected.
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3. Create a NURBs sphere
   • – RIGHT CLICK on your surface and select Assign New Material…
   • – Under POPUP WINDOW || Mental Ray > Materials.. select Materials. (This brings up the materials for mental ray on the right side)
   • – Select mi_car_paint_phen.
   • – Open up the IPR render window and adjust the parameters to see the attributes you can modify.