What is wrong with MentalRay?

[Harutium]

What is wrong with MentalRay, native 3DSMax6/7 Renderer?
Why a lot of people besides the price of Max pay are buying for Vray?fRender/Brazil,etc ?

[Dynedain]

mental ray only came with max recently

mental ray is very very very slow

mental ray charges several thousand dollars for each machine you want to use for network rendering

[trixian]

Not to mention that the mental ray guys are evil satanic overlords, and they eat our children.
Support our freedom, use vray!

[Nenad]

Hehe..errr, I mean Brrrr!

[percydaman]

seriously though, mentalray is a VERY mature renderer thats used ALOT even still in hollywood. I just think its connection to max was so crappy in the past that max users were more then ready to step off that bandwagon as soon as something else came along.

[Spinoza]

imho mental ray is great as long as you don´t need GI in your scenes.

the integration is not so bad now that is is part of max.

[thethule]

It's very simple. there is nothing wrong with it, it's one of the most widely used renderers out there. But as Percy said, when it first arrived, the connection to max was terrible, i know it put ME off. And compared to Vray, it is very slow when doing normal everyday scenes. But put it in a big production environment with its own shader writers, and thats where it will shine. So, nothing wrong with it, we just love Vray better!


Marc

[percydaman]

yeah its at a level of stability and maturity unmatched by most other renderers. its always been the connections to its respective programs that have been its achilles heel.