Topics in this section

• About the mental ray renderer
• Motion Blur
• Approximation in mental ray for Maya
• Visualize and render images
• Quality, render speed, diagnostics
• Network rendering using mental ray for Maya
• mental ray for Maya Output window messages
• Work with mental ray for Maya approximation
• Render time smoothing of polygon meshes
• Rendering a smooth polygon mesh
• Contour rendering
• Work with multi-render passes
• Exporting the multi-render passes for compositing in Composite
• Previewing your composite in the Render View
• Exporting a render template
• Previewing a part of a shading network using a render target
• Set scene options
• Perform command line rendering
• Export .mi files
• Managing your scenes using render proxies
• Increase render speed
• Diagnose scene problems
• Network rendering using Satellite and Standalone
• Dynamic Attributes for mental ray for Maya
• Troubleshoot mental ray for Maya rendering