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Using the mental ray for Maya renderer

In this tutorial, you will use IPR for mental ray rendering to preview your render results. You must first select the mental ray for Maya renderer.

To turn on the mental ray for Maya renderer

In the main menu, select Window > Rendering Editors > Render Settings (or click the Render Settings icon in the Render View window).
In the Render Settings window, set Render Using setting to mental ray.

TipIf mental ray does not appear under the list of renderers, you must load the mental ray plug-in via the Plug-in Manager. Select Window > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager and select Loaded for the Mayatomr.mll plug-in.