Comments on: Tidbits: Autodesk for Mac Facecast 2 Notes https://architosh.com/2011/06/tidbits-autodesk-for-mac-facecast-2-notes/ architoshâ„¢ — a global-leading CAD / 3D / AEC industry technology publication and #1 source for Mac and iOS users in these segments. Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: stefkeB https://architosh.com/2011/06/tidbits-autodesk-for-mac-facecast-2-notes/#comment-646 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:29:08 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=5119#comment-646 I’m not a Maya user, so hard to tell, but http://digitalcontentproducer.com/news/video_mental_ray_maya/ mentions in 2002 that before Autodesk, the Mental Ray rendering engine was already included in Maya without an additional license cost. AFAIK, Mental Ray as a rendering engine has always been in Softimage which was in IRIX before running on Windows and Linux and, AFAIK, most rendering engines in themselves are not platform-dependent.

]]> By: Anthony Frausto-Robledo AIA, L https://architosh.com/2011/06/tidbits-autodesk-for-mac-facecast-2-notes/#comment-645 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:31:31 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=5119#comment-645 Thanks for pointing this out. I am wondering if this was the case before when it first came out, back when it was started prior to Autodesk owning it. Could you shed any light on that?

]]> By: stefkeB https://architosh.com/2011/06/tidbits-autodesk-for-mac-facecast-2-notes/#comment-644 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:35:49 +0000 https://architosh.com/?p=5119#comment-644 AutoCAD for Mac is the only Mac application where you can utilize mental ray’s engine. If we are wrong about this do tell us.

AFAIK, Maya also provides the Mental Ray rendering engine (among others) and is available for OSX.

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