mental images Forum

mental images offers public mailing lists for discussion of shaders and mental ray. These lists are intended for sharing ideas, shaders, and problems. They are not edited or moderated by mental images.

Although mental images reads these lists and may occasionally join in, these are not support lists with guaranteed replies and problem solutions - mental ray and the shaders are always part of third party products, whose vendors handle this kind of support. mental images can not provide support for third-party products.

List charters and rules

It is not allowed to post advertisement, other commercial solicitations, or mail floods (UCE, unsolicited commercial email; UBE, unsolicited bulk email; collectively known as spam). Any form of harvesting addresses or other personal information is not allowed. Violators will be excluded from the lists. When posting material, the poster is responsible for ensuring that no intellectual property or other laws are violated. For example, do not post proprietary source code or material that you found but are not sure whether someone holds copyrights to. By posting to the list, you agree to release all posted information to the public domain.

If you intend to make shaders or source code available, the same intellectual property concerns apply. Make sure that you own what you post, and that the material is free of third-party rights such as patent protection.

Ideally, put posted software under an open-source license such as the GPL (see www.gnu.org), and supply HTML documentation.

mental images will not censor or edit mailing list contributions.

mental images does not assume responsibility or liability for material posted on the list.

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