I am just learning Maya, on the 2013 student version for Mac.  I am trying to use mental ray, but I can’t find it. It doesn’t show up in the tab on the render settings window, and I have looked in the plug-in manager for mayatomr, but it doesn’t show up at all. As I understand it, the plug-in should be standard in 2013. Any idea why it isn’t appearing, or where I can get it?

Thanks for any help.

scroll all the way to the bottom of the plug-in manager - mental ray now has its own section.

Here is more detail to the error message I get when I try to load mental ray:

// mental ray for Maya 2013
// Error: line 1: Cannot find procedure “mentalrayForMaya”. //
// Error: (Mayatomr) : setup command execution failed //
// Error: file: /Applications/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 665: initializePlugin function failed (Mayatomr) //

i am just wondering if maya will ever get a native renderer , rather than rely on plug-ins etc..?

http://shadowship.blogspot.com/

http://vimeo.com/22422170

a whoosh and twinkle is better than a sizzle and splat

thats not what i meant.. i know about the maya software .. i mean a renderer that does all the same stuff as MR and / or Vray and / or renderman etc etc

http://shadowship.blogspot.com/

http://vimeo.com/22422170

a whoosh and twinkle is better than a sizzle and splat

Browse for the Mayatomr plugin in the following location:

/Applications/Autodesk/maya2013/mentalray/plug-ins

If you don’t see it in there, you might want to uninstall your current version and install Maya 2013 Service Pack 2 which can be found at the following link:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/ser...d=20537489&linkID=9242259

Cheers,
Santec

It is in the application folder, I just can’t get it to appear in the render manager.  I’m starting to suspect that Mental Ray isn’t licensed in the educational version but I can’t find anything anywhere that would confirm this suspicion, and I haven’t encountered anyone else with this problem.