mental ray® Standalone 3D rendering software enables studios to produce high-volume, high-quality renderings for today’s complex film, television, and design visualization productions in less time. It supplements the mental ray rendering technology found within Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Softimage®, and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design software. With accelerated performance, enhanced quality, support for advanced shaders, and extended use of open file formats, mental ray Standalone offers you a faster solution for high-volume rendering tasks.

• Industry-standard 3D rendering software—Used by leading film, broadcast, digital publishing, and design visualization facilities.
• Physically accurate lighting—Photorealistic rendering of images.
• Distributed rendering solution—Works independently through a command-line interface.
• Robust shading language—Extend your 3D software’s extensive shader library to create any desired rendering effect.
• A single sampling mechanism—Achieve your desired rendering quality in less time.
• mental ray Standalone 2012 is a single executable—Works with Autodesk® Maya® 2012, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2012, Autodesk® Softimage® 2012, and Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2012 software, providing extra flexibility and simplicity for studios with mixed-application pipelines.

mental ray is a registered trademark of mental images GmbH licensed for use by Autodesk, Inc.

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