mental mill® Artist Edition is intended for 3D Artists, game artists and designers, look-development and lighting TDs. With the Artist Edition users can quickly assemble complex shader graphs from the provided library of shaders, modify the parameters, and save them as files which 3ds Max® 2010 reads natively.
Inside 3ds Max users can then assign the shaders to 3D objects, continue to modify the parameters in context with other shaders and lighting, and fine-tune the look of the final renderings. mental mill Artist Edition is bundled with Autodesk 3ds Max 2010
Feature Comparison
Standard Edition | Artist Edition | |
Graph Editor | √ | √ |
Parameter Editor | √ | √ |
Toolbox Interface | √ | √ |
MetaSL Metanode Library | √ | √ |
Native rendering in Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 | √ | √ |
Customizable CgFX, GLSL, HLSL Exporter Plug-ins | √ | - |
Nvidia FX Composer Exporter Plug-in | √ | - |
Autodesk Maya®, 3ds Max and Softimage® Exporter Plug-in | √ | - |
Dassault Systemés CATIA® Exporter Plug-in | √ | - |
MetaSL Code Editor | √ | - |
Visual Interactive Shader Debugger | √ | - |
Windows x86 32bit Platforms | √ | √ |
Linux 32 and 64 bit Platforms | √ | - |
Mac OS X Platforms | √ | - |
Support Forum | √ | √ |
mental ray Preview Plug-in | √ | - |
Native rendering in Standalone mental ray 3.7+ | √ | √ |
Availability
mental mill Artist Edition is available from Autodesk.
mental mill Standard Edition is available from mental images.