Like I said in my VUE8 and Vray in 3dsmax 2011 tutorial also max 2011 its like when we all went from XP tO vista so folder change there structure. So now for Mental Ray its also different I will try to step by step.
Well now max2010 used to intall this in a folder called mentalray in the max main folder. Now in max 2011 since mentalmill has been incorporated into max2011 then now that folder is called mentalimages.
The VUE8 intallation might have created mentalray folder since it did not find one and place what it had to there.
So this is what you do.
1. get to that mental ray folder that vue created in the main max2011 folder open
2.open also the mentalimages folder side to side.
3.on mentalimages folder go to shaders_3rdparty folder, then to mentalray folder, now here is what you would find in the old max2010 folder so then this is where all the things on the mentalray folder from the max2010 structure go.
4.go to that mental ray folder in step 1 and you will se that now that it looks the same as the open inside the mentalimages folder.
5. Go through every forder and transfer any vue file to the its corresponding folder in the one in the mentalimages folder.
6. Now the 3rdparty.mi in the mentalimages/shaders_3rdparty/mentalray
folder open and here we edit what vue8 try to due in the installation
7.open 3rdparty.mi in notepad and this how it looks, and as you can see I now just added a 2 vue8 links. add this two lines the same way you see here and save the fine.
Now guess what your done close everything fire up max2011 and happy renders in mental ray.
#*****************************************************************************
# Copyright 2005 by Autodesk
#
#*****************************************************************************
# Author: Daniel Levesque
# Created: 05 April 2004
# Purpose: Main file for including all the 3rd party shader definitions.
#****************************************************************************/
14 comments on “VUE8 and MentalRay in 3dsmax 2011”
Thanks Tranceus for the nice tut.
But it freeze Max2011 at startup here.
Phil
well PhilCoraz if it freezes then there might be two problems, you are doing something wrong or your computer has something wrong. I have rendered full scenes now with out a problem at all, and it has never frozen on me so check things better, maybe you might need some other soft like directx or netframework updates or so, or it might just be that your VUE8 installation is corrupted, hope you can get it working right because its a good tool to use
Ok i reinstall Max and vue8 and it works.
Thx
THANKS A MILLION IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In my case Vue 8 had already installed before I installed max 2011. So is it necessary to reinstall Vue? or any other way to do that? Please help me. because vue and max together give very impressive result. By the way I am using windows 7
Yes dEB you have to reinstall Vu8 but this time redirected to the max 2011 and then follow the steps here, and if your are using vray I have also posted something for that.Dont worry after the intallation you will be able to still use the one in your max2010 if you want.
PS is you have in lot of stuff in the VUE library and dont want to have to reinstall that then rename the e-on software folder to something like e-on software_BK and reinstall once done delete the new folder and change this one back to its original name.
Hope things work
https://cgpersia.com/2010/04/vue8-and-vray-in-3dsmax-2011-5947.html
Thanks man…YOU are really GREAT!!!!!!
Pametno poba….
thx for the trick but i dont have 3dsmax2010.
can u upload the folder mental ray please?
thx by advance
Hi, I have a problem,
I’ve done everything like you wrote, but, when I open Max I get this Mental Ray error in mantal ray masse window:
“MI 0.0 error 121001: .\shaders_3rdparty\mentalray\3rdparty.mi, line 17: syntax error”
Any ideas?
yes I got same error, is there anybody can help us ?
I found a solution to this problem, finally,
its on http://forum.cgpersia.com/f32/3ds-max-2011-vue-8-xstream-vray-1-5-sp4a-10598/ and there is a link from arkimote09 which gives you all the files and their locations. Just ignore the Vray stuff
nice post, I enjoy reading it. I hope one day I will obtain the same. thanx.
Hey,
As far as i can tell I followed all your instructions word for word but I got the same message as oskario20. Any thoughts would be appreciated aswell.
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Thanks Tranceus for the nice tut.
But it freeze Max2011 at startup here.
Phil
well PhilCoraz if it freezes then there might be two problems, you are doing something wrong or your computer has something wrong. I have rendered full scenes now with out a problem at all, and it has never frozen on me so check things better, maybe you might need some other soft like directx or netframework updates or so, or it might just be that your VUE8 installation is corrupted, hope you can get it working right because its a good tool to use
Ok i reinstall Max and vue8 and it works.
Thx
THANKS A MILLION IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In my case Vue 8 had already installed before I installed max 2011. So is it necessary to reinstall Vue? or any other way to do that? Please help me. because vue and max together give very impressive result. By the way I am using windows 7
Yes dEB you have to reinstall Vu8 but this time redirected to the max 2011 and then follow the steps here, and if your are using vray I have also posted something for that.Dont worry after the intallation you will be able to still use the one in your max2010 if you want.
PS is you have in lot of stuff in the VUE library and dont want to have to reinstall that then rename the e-on software folder to something like e-on software_BK and reinstall once done delete the new folder and change this one back to its original name.
Hope things work
https://cgpersia.com/2010/04/vue8-and-vray-in-3dsmax-2011-5947.html
Thanks man…YOU are really GREAT!!!!!!
Pametno poba….
thx for the trick but i dont have 3dsmax2010.
can u upload the folder mental ray please?
thx by advance
Hi, I have a problem,
I’ve done everything like you wrote, but, when I open Max I get this Mental Ray error in mantal ray masse window:
“MI 0.0 error 121001: .\shaders_3rdparty\mentalray\3rdparty.mi, line 17: syntax error”
Any ideas?
yes I got same error, is there anybody can help us ?
I found a solution to this problem, finally,
its on http://forum.cgpersia.com/f32/3ds-max-2011-vue-8-xstream-vray-1-5-sp4a-10598/ and there is a link from arkimote09 which gives you all the files and their locations. Just ignore the Vray stuff
nice post, I enjoy reading it. I hope one day I will obtain the same. thanx.
Hey,
As far as i can tell I followed all your instructions word for word but I got the same message as oskario20. Any thoughts would be appreciated aswell.