mental ray Configurations and Supported Platforms

mental ray® supports all UNIX platforms from Hewlett-Packard (HPPA 2.0, Alpha, IA64), IBM (Power, PowerPC), SGI, Inc. (MIPS, IA64), and Sun Microsystems (Sparc). Also, mental ray supports Windows 2000/XP platforms. Furthermore, mental ray supports LINUX on x86, IA64 Itanium and AMD X86-64 Opteron based platforms and Apple Macintosh OS X (PowerPC and Intel).

Standalone Version

The mental ray standalone version is a command line application that renders photorealistic images from the mental ray scene file format (.mi2). It is also used on a rendering slave for network distributed rendering.

mental ray standalone is available to end-user customers from

• Avid Technologies(press release)
• Autodesk(press release)
• Dassault Systèmes
• Sensable Technologies

Integrated Version

This version is provided to mental images' OEM partners for integration into their products.

mental ray is currently integrated into the following DCC and CAD applications:

• Avid 3D
• Softimage|XSI (Softimage) (press release)
• Maya (Autodesk) (press release)
• Autodesk 3ds max (press release)
• Autodesk VIZ
• SolidWorks/PhotoWorks (Solidworks)
• Catia V4 /Visualization Studio (VST); Catia V5 /Photostudio2 (PHS) , Photo Studio Optimizer (PSO) (Dassault Systèmes) (press release)
• FreeForm (Sensable)
• Houdini 5 (Side Effects) (press release)

Developer Version

A developer version of mental ray that allows direct access to the mental ray API, is available directly from mental images to third parties on an OEM/VAR basis for integration into a wide range of applications, including CAD, styling design, architectural design, visualization, and numerous Intranet/Internet applications, that require sophisticated and interactive rendering capabilities.

Demo Versions

A fully functional demo standalone version and a full API compliant demo developer version of mental ray 3.1 is contained in the CD-ROM that comes with the mental ray handbook 'Programming mental ray'. (Vol.2 , 2nd rev.).

mental ray Supported Platforms