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
| The following hardware/OS combinations are supported for mental ray® Version 3.x | |
|---|---|
32-bit platforms | |
| Apple Macintosh OS X (PowerPC/Intel) |
HP: HPUX 11.x for HPPA 2.0 | |
IBM: AIX 4.3.x and later | |
Linux for Intel x86 and AMD x86 | |
SGI: IRIX 6.2 and later | |
SUN: SunOS 5.6, 5.8 and later | |
Windows 2000/XP for Intel x86 and AMD x86 | |
64-bit platforms | |
Apple Macintosh OS X (PowerPC/Intel) | |
HP: HPUX 11.x for IA64 Itanium and HPPA 2.0 | |
IBM: AIX 5.1 and later (Power 4 and up) | |
Linux for AMD x86-64 Opteron and Intel EM64T | |
Linux for Intel IA64 Itanium (HP zx6000, SGI Altix 3000) | |
SGI: IRIX64 6.2 and later | |
Windows XP for AMD x86-64 Opteron, Intel IA64 Itanium and EM64T | |