mental ray or Vray in 3DS max

[supernegrojr]

Hello all, I use to always work in 3DS max but now ive been working more in maya. but i was playing around in max and I couldnt find out how to get mental ray or Vray to work. Are they plug-ins?? how do it get them in 3DS max

[supernegrojr]

see look at the picture i uploaded. all of my mental ray materials are incompatible. and i dont know why.

[minimus]

have you rememberd to switch from default scanline render to mentalray render?

hitt f10 and go down to assigne render and pick mentalray. then all the materials will gett colore and gett usable. same with vray if you have that render engine innstaled.

[supernegrojr]

hey thanks man. very helpful.

now how do i get Vray?? probably have to buy it huh??

[minimus]

jupp. vray is a buyable render engine. but you can download the demo from the creators homepage. just search vray at google.

[supernegrojr]

it doesn't work. whenever i try and download the demo for Vray it says "an error occurred during the installation process".

and im not sure why it does this. does anyone know whats wrong?? let me know. thanks

[supernegrojr]

it doesn't work. whenever i try and download the demo for Vray it says "an error occurred during the installation process".

and im not sure why it does this. does anyone know whats wrong?? let me know. thanks

[Need_Help]

Make sure you have administrator rights when you install it. (that usually happens when you are using windows Vista)

Thanks.

[supernegrojr]

i found out what the problem was. i had max open when i was trying to install it. lol

[minimus]

hahaha ^^ nice. well you found the problem thats good.

[supernegrojr]

yeah. but now i have another problem that does not have to do with vray

my basic tools like move, rotate, and scale are gone. well there not gone i just dont know what happen to them. I make a box and i press "w" (move tool) and nothing shows up.

And then whenever i move around the scene like rotate etc. all the faces in my scene disappear. but then i stop moving around the scene it goes back to normal.

what could be the problem??

[minimus]

since moving 3d objects can be a heavy job for the computer, 3ds max is constructed so when you have a heavy scene with alot of polygones. he make them disapere when moving so it will be easyer for you computer to prosses the work.

it happens to me to when i have big scenes. i often just turn on wire frame or only shader. and then it works fine. shader with wireframe is a killer realy.

the other problem. have you tried to toggel the hot key button on and of?

[supernegrojr]

ohh ok cool

and whats the hotkey button???

[supernegrojr]

ohh and about the wireframe problem, its not a big scene at all. i mean i just make a simple box and it does that.

and i fixed my transform gizmo problem. just a simple hit the "x" key and it fixed it! another simple fix. lol. i still have much to learn about 3ds max haha