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Shalini S.

Freelance 3D Visualizer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/12/2020

"Fast and easy to use as compared to other rendering engine"

5/5

What do you like best about Mental Ray?

Fast in producing rendering results. If I want to check my Interior design results, it does not take ages to produce result. It is easy to set light and materials to the scene which is good in terms of work turnaround and get feedback early in the process of interior designing. Its a great tool that can help you be agile in your work, engage customer early on and produce results faster than ever. There are some great community available to help you with any questions regarding the product and solve if you are stuck and don't know where to go. I have see many product community that are not so great but that is not the case with mental ray. Another good thing is it is part of NVIDIA which pairs greatly with my laptop core component. At first I wasn't so sure about this but when I started using, I saw results and compare with other software. I was comfortable with results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mental Ray?

Need to improve the software on the quality results as compared to other software in the market. One thing that I have to compromise is the quality which works for me depending on the project. If client is not so peculiar about the quality but they need a view so that they can provide feedback and explain what additional is needed then I don't see much of the problem. I sometimes face clients or companies that are very specific about the quality then I use mixed approach - I use this for low quality and early feedback but use other software for final rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mental Ray:

Use it whenever you need it but make sure to experiment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am an interior designer and I create 3D designs based on 2D plans and it is very critical to do it fast, effective and correctly. This software helped me to execute the design. I used this software to create interior designs and use mental ray as a rendering engine. I have used many other rendering engines like Vray, Corona. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.