Re: Question about the latest release of MentalRay for Maya

[Pierre Schiller]

Thanks Matt for your reply.
"asking naively", as I wrote. :D
No probs.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Matt Lind  wrote:

> Generally speaking, mental ray is fairly finicky about versioning and
> compatibility.  Usually shaders need to be re-compiled for each version of
> mental ray, and only on rare occasion does an older compiled shader work on
> a newer version of the renderer because of all the subtle changes to the
> code.
>
> Taking a .dll from a newer version of mental ray (Maya) and trying to use
> it
> in an older version (Softimage) is not likely to work.  Just after
> Softimage
> was EOL'd, mental ray went through some significant core changes to greatly
> improve performance.  I doubt what you're asking will work.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
>
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:55:24 -0500
> From: Pierre Schiller 
> Subject: Question about the latest release of MentalRay for Maya
> To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List.
>
> Hello, I?ve got a naive question about MR for Maya:
> Can Softimage read those .dll and work with them? Like, point softimage to
> a specific
> folder in preferences and will it pick up the Mental Ray code to use as
> renderer?
> Thanks.
>
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Re: Question about the latest release of MentalRay for Maya

[Matt Lind]

Generally speaking, mental ray is fairly finicky about versioning and 
compatibility.  Usually shaders need to be re-compiled for each version of 
mental ray, and only on rare occasion does an older compiled shader work on 
a newer version of the renderer because of all the subtle changes to the 
code.

Taking a .dll from a newer version of mental ray (Maya) and trying to use it 
in an older version (Softimage) is not likely to work.  Just after Softimage 
was EOL'd, mental ray went through some significant core changes to greatly 
improve performance.  I doubt what you're asking will work.

Matt





Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:55:24 -0500
From: Pierre Schiller 
Subject: Question about the latest release of MentalRay for Maya
To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List.

Hello, I?ve got a naive question about MR for Maya:
Can Softimage read those .dll and work with them? Like, point softimage to
a specific
folder in preferences and will it pick up the Mental Ray code to use as
renderer?
Thanks.

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Question about the latest release of MentalRay for Maya

[Pierre Schiller]

Hello, I´ve got a naive question about MR for Maya:
Can Softimage read those .dll and work with them? Like, point softimage to
a specific
folder in preferences and will it pick up the Mental Ray code to use as
renderer?
Thanks.

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