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Sam D.

Visual Effects Supervisor

Animation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/21/2019

"Mental ray, was nice at the time but is now obsolete"

0/5

What do you like best about Mental Ray?

Tweakablility ability to make images. This software is obsolete avoid at all costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mental Ray?

Poor Export/Translate speed. Too much knowledge required to optimise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SB

Sunny B.

Mr Suresh

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/19/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"The graphics are insane"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Mental Ray?

By far one of the best on the market to render quickly and smoothly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mental Ray?

Pricing can be an issue, but with quality comes pricing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MB

Miroslav B.

3D Asset Artist / 3D Generalist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2018

"Retired Render."

1/5

What do you like best about Mental Ray?

For a long time it was available as a plug-in in Maya and Max for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mental Ray?

Compared to other renderers (for example, Vray), Mental Ray was slow in calculating metals. It was developed slowly(for example, there was no PBR workflow). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mental Ray:

Nothing to say. This renderer is stopped supporting and developing by NVidia. Try Iray. It's better:) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mental Ray solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used it for rendering 3D model's turntables, because it was in Maya and i didn't bother "What Render to use?" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MK

Manish K.

3D Generalist

Media Production

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/7/2016

"Expensive Time Renderer"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Mental Ray?

It comes pre installed with multiple autodesk softwares, hence it eliminates the need to buy an external renderer for complex ray tracing functions like Caustics and GI, recent updates allow for calculating GI solution over GPU which has significantly sped up render times. it's ability to render in 32bit exr allows for non-destructive linear work flow. It allows for the creation of industry standard level graphics at no extra cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mental Ray?

The render frame buffer is not so useful compared to other renderer out there in the market. Distributed rendering is not user friendly in any given situation. Mental ray satellite is more confusing and crashes without notification. Real time rendering is not available for mental ray production render. Mental ray ipr is slow and lacks GPU addition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mental Ray:

If your looking for great renders at no additonal cost but at the cost of longer render times then Mental ray is for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mental Ray solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since it's pre installed saves a lot of cost of purchasing an external renderer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.