mental ray supports Windows Vista/XP platforms for both 32bit and 64bit versions, and Windows 2000. Furthermore, mental ray supports Apple Mac OS X Leopard/Tiger on Intel 32bit and 64bit. It also supports all major LINUX distributions on x86 and AMD x86-64 based platforms. mental ray supports major UNIX systems like Solaris from Sun Microsystems on Intel 32bit and 64bit platforms, and other systems and platforms upon request.
Standalone Version
The mental ray standalone version is a command line application that renders photorealistic images from the mental ray scene file format (.mi). It is also used on a rendering slave for network distributed rendering.
mental ray standalone is available to end-user customers from
- Autodesk
- Dassault Systèmes
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:
- Autodesk Softimage
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Autodesk Maya
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Autodesk Inventor
- Autodesk Revit
- Autodesk VIZ
- SolidWorks/PhotoWorks
- Dassault Systèmes Catia V4 /Visualization Studio
- Dassault Systèmes Catia V5 /Photostudio2, Photo Studio Optimizer
- Maticad Domus3D
- SensAble FreeForm
- Side Effects Houdini (via mental ray standalone)
Developer Version
A developer version of mental ray is available from mental images and offered to third parties on an OEM/VAR basis for integration into a wide range of applications that require sophisticated and interactive rendering capabilities, like CAD, styling design, architectural design, visualization, and Intranet/Internet applications.
Demo Versions
A fully functional demo standalone version and a full API compliant demo developer version of mental ray 3.6 is contained in the CD-ROM that comes with the mental ray handbook 'Writing mental ray Shaders' vol.3.
mental ray Supported Platforms
The following hardware/operating system combinations are supported for mental ray.
32-bit platforms
- Windows Vista/XP/2000 on Intel/AMD x86
- Apple Macintosh OS X Leopard/Tiger on Intel x86
- Linux on Intel/AMD x86
- Sun Solaris 10 and later on Intel x86
64-bit platforms
- Windows Vista/XP 64bit Editions for Intel/AMD x86-64
- Apple Mac OS X Leopard/Tiger on Intel x86-64
- Linux on Intel/AMD x86-64
- Sun Solaris 10 or later on Intel x86-64