Note, the plugin works in Maya 2018.5 dot release too. The update also fixes a lot of known issues, and improves rendering performance especially for GI Next. It will continue to work with the older GPU generations Pascal, Maxwell, and Kepler. This software update introduces support for NVIDIA’s Volta GPU generation, and is based on CUDA 9.

The version 1.2 update of the NVIDIA Mental Ray for Maya and NVIDIA Mental Ray for 3ds Max plugins, and the corresponding Mental Ray Standalone distributions are based on the latest major mental ray version 3.14.5.

We include a copy of the text of the original announcement followed by all the links to the pieces of software. That does not mean its vast valuable content is lost, but we will stop hosting it on the original website location.įor those of you who are searching for the download links of the free Mental Ray software, which we did publish in the forum as well, here you are. After decades of supporting the rendering community worldwide, the NVIDIA ARC Forum will go out of service, unfortunately, including all of its mental ray sections.

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