Features
Overview of the functionality offered by mental ray.
- Rendering
- Parallelism
- Network
- Progressive
- Geometry Cache
- Memory
- Scene Database
- Polygon Meshes
- Free‑Form Surfaces
- Subdivision Surfaces
- Point Data
- Materials
- BRDF/BSDF
- Textures
- Displacement
- Volumetric Effects
- Direct Lighting
- Area Lights
- Shadow Maps
- Multiple Importance Sampling
- Image‑Based Lighting
- Caustics
- Global Illumination
- Final Gathering
- Ambient Occlusion
- Irradiance Particles
- iray Rendering Mode
- Texture Baking
- Multi‑Pass
- Frame Buffers
- Camera Model
- Sampling
- Animation
- Motion Blur
- Rasterizer