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Project: Switching to mental ray

The mental ray renderer offers a number of features that are not available to the Maya Software renderer. These include the blurring of reflections and the application of Final Gathering. (Other mental ray features are discussed in later chapters.)

To switch the renderer, change the Render Using menu, at the top of the Render Settings window, to mental ray. If mental ray does not appear as an option, its plug-in is disabled. To enable the mental ray plug-in, choose Window Settings/Preferences Plug-In Manager and ...