Disabling or Enabling Final Gather Display While Rendering with the mental ray Renderer

Use the mentalray_max.ini file to disable or enable display of final gather data while rendering an image with the mental ray renderer.

When this option is active, the Rendered Frame Window displays a coarse image of the final gather points as those points are being calculated. This provides visual feedback of the final gather solution in progress.

Visual display of final gather calculation in progress

When this option is disabled, a final rendering directly overwrite the previous one in the Rendered Frame Window.

To disable final gather display:

1. Use a text editor to open the file mentalray_max.ini.

   This file is in the folder C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3ds Max\2016 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\plugcfg\.

2. Add a preferences section to the INI file by entering this line:

   [Preferences]

3. Below the [Preferences] line, add this line:

   ShowVisualFGProgress=0

To enable final gather display:

1. Use a text editor to open the file mentalray_max.ini.

   This file is in the folder C:\Users\<userid>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3ds Max\2016 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\plugcfg\.

2. In the [Preferences] section, change the value of ShowVisualFGProgress from 0 to 1.