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iray

Speed difference between iray and mental ray in 3ds Max 2013 is 'amazing', claims artist Juan Gea.

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Lots of new animation tools, better interoperability with MotionBuilder, and nHair sims - but no iray just yet.

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

mCloth, Track View retiming and updates to iray and Nitrous, oh my. See videos of the new features here.

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

HP′s entry-level pro workstation is a powerful beast in its own right, as Jason Lewis's benchmarks reveal.

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Integration of mental ray and iray into 3ds Max and Maya takes an unexpected turn for the better.

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Check out State Sets and iray running in an ActiveShade window - both due in the new Advantage Pack.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Update to feature Nitrous viewport, start of unified physics system, new LSCM UV unwrap tools.

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Bunkspeed's photorealistic renderer uses mental images' RealityServer platform to bring renders online.

Friday, January 28th, 2011

He spent ten years hunting bugs in the Maya/mental ray pipeline - but his new online masterclass will spare you that pain.

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

New third-party add-on brings power of mental images render engines to Cinema users - for a price.

Friday, November 19th, 2010

GPU-accelerated engine rolled out in new Advantage Pack. GPU boosts speed five times, claims developer.

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Advantage Packs add iray renderer for 3ds Max; Composite, MatchMover and multiphysics for Softimage.

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Nvidia, Autodesk, mental images demo cloud rendering in iray during GTC keynote.

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010