The firm also confirmed that it will “further invest” in Mental Ray’s sister application Iray, itself now available as both a server edition and separate plugins for 3ds Max, Maya and Rhino. Users of Nvidia’s newer plugin versions of Mental Ray for 3ds Max and Maya will also be eligible to extend their licences after their subscription period expires to cover any ongoing projects that require Mental Ray.ĭevelopment to continue on Iray, though sales and support shifted to integration partnersĪccording to the FAQs, Nvidia continues to “significantly focus” on its other GPU rendering technologies, including its OptiX ray tracing framework and its increasingly widely used MDL material format. Nvidia will also add support for its upcoming Volta generation of GPUs, expected early next year.ĭevelopers integrating Mental Ray into their software – primarily CAD firms, given that Autodesk has now stopped integrating Mental Ray into both 3ds Max and Maya – will receive support until 2020. Nvidia announced its intention to discontinue development of new features for Mental Ray in an email to subscribers last week.Īccording to the linked FAQs, users with current subscriptions will continue to receive maintenance releases with bugfixes throughout 2018, and product support will continue for the “foreseeable future”. No new features, but bugfixes to continue throughout 2018 As of today, 20 November 2017, it will no longer be possible to buy new subscriptions to the standalone edition of renderer or its 3ds Max and Maya plugins.
Nvidia is stopping development of Mental Ray.
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