Mental Ray plugin will not show up in the plugin manager Causes: Maya 2014 and 2015 on Mac OSX 10.8.xx and 10.9.xx cause the Maya installer to have some difficulties when installing and sometimes the paths for Mental Ray get corrupted.
Ptex support in mental ray Render Ptex texture files in mental ray for Maya. Eliminate the need to create and assign UVs to meshes by creating Ptex files in Mudbox 2015 3D digital sculpting and texture painting software or certain other texture painting applications and rendering them in mental ray for Maya. Maya 2015 System Requirements.
On Windows operating systems, this service pack patches your existing Maya 2015 software. Do not uninstall Maya 2015 before applying this service pack. On Mac and Linux operating systems, this service pack is a full product install. Uninstall your existing Maya 2015 software before installing this service pack. For this release, the mental ray.
. Includes the Autodesk Genuine Service which tests for certain types of non-genuine Autodesk software. For more information click here.

Hello Mac users,

you love to stay on your Mac and use mental ray for Maya?

On Mac and Linux operating systems, this service pack is a full product install. Uninstall your existing Maya 2015 software before installing this service pack. Windows users: it is recommended to install both the Maya 2015 SP2 msp and the mental ray For Maya 2015 SP2 msp; For users who rely on LiveUpdate, you’ll be pushed the patch.

No problem, since Maya offers the same Qt user interface and experience like on Windows or Linux. Maya scene files and mental ray .mi files that have been generated on other platforms can simply be used on the Mac. Even the configuration files, “Maya.env” and “maya.rayrc”, work identically. All true, but…

Several things are different. For example, the unique use of Mac specific keyboard shortcuts is puzzling, like in the “open scene” window. Switching to the “OS native” file dialog is possible in the Maya preferences. Although it might even be more confusing to use Qt and non-Qt side by side.

What about mental ray ? Well, it is only dependent on the underlying Unix basis “Darwin” with its stable and standardized interfaces. That keeps it quite independent from frequent Mac OS X updates, which typically just touch the application levels of the operating system.

Normally. But the most recent “Mavericks” update of OS X, version 10.9, seem to have changed some multi-threading behavior of the kernel. mental ray is obviously also affected, and shows unexpected interruptions, or even gets blocked completely during rendering. Our developers are currently diving into it, to come up with a solution as soon as possible.

Here is another little annoyance:

The message log for mental ray preview rendering has disappeared a few Mac OS X versions back, also due to a system change that handles console output. The batch rendering is not affected since it writes the messages to a file. There is a workaround for preview rendering, though, using mental ray for Maya’s built-in log facility that works separately to the system log. It can be enabled on the Maya command line like this (also useful for a Shelf button):

It will create a file with the fixed name “mentalray.log”, typically residing in the last opened scene file directory. Double-clicking on the file in the Mac Finder will open the Console App, giving a similar experience to the message display on other platforms. If you enable the Console preference “bring log window to front” it will pop up automatically with each mental ray rendering of that scene using the -log command.

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mentalray for Maya 2015 SP2 is now available and provides important fixes around XGen hair rendering, layering shaders, massive assembly scenes, native IBL and more. Here’s a short list of fixes that come with the new mental ray 3.12.1.16 and the new version of the mental ray plugin.
Please, consult the mental ray and the Maya 2015 SP1 and SP2 release notes for the complete list.

XGen
The performance of the XGen hair shader has been significantly improved for scenes with dense hair.
Layering shaders (Mila)
Several fixes in the shaders and the UI – namely, possible crash with subsurface scattering initialization, possible NaN values and a too bright contribution of the user IBL environment shader in glossy components, reordering layers with bump or weight connection.
Binary Maya file compatibility with Maya 2014 restored
Some mental ray shader nodes saved in .mb files were not compatible between 2014 and 2015. This is now fixed.
GI GPU
Improved performance of the GPU and multi-CPU rendering, and added support for NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs.
Large scene with assemblies
Fixed possible crash when rendering large scenes with multiple assemblies exceeding physical memory.
Native environment lighting
IPR now automatically updates when changing the new “emit light” features which control the native environment lighting. Fixed brightness difference in IPR versus Render Current Frame.

Happy rendering,

Mental Ray For Maya 2017

Julia

Mental Ray For Maya 2015 Mac