Re: Why Mental Ray?
Now that Mental ray has Proxies, I have no need to use Vray.
Personally mr just sat right with me. If Brazil was a little faster in their development I would be using that over Vray.
I gave Vray a real hard go. Did allot of reading , tuts etc but still couldn't get a strong hold on it. I could get good results, but I found to get truly great results the effort and render times were ridiculous.
Having trained several people in mr after being devout Vray users, overwhelmingly the response has been great. They could believe how easy it was to get up and running and to produce results.
I will also second the sentiment of its free, easy to hand the model to others and very flexible.
I disagree the mental images doesn't listen to it users. There is a great open dialog with Master Zap, who writes allot of the shaders and development of mr. For the past 2 releases of Max a large % of the improvements and new features have been mr centric. sure mr has been playing catchup for a while, but I'd say it can now compete head to head with Vray.
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