3D Max 2021 Finally Removed Mental Ray, Here's How To Avoid Scene Errors When Opening Older Scenes

3D Max 2021 Finally Removed Mental Ray, Here’s How To Avoid Scene Errors When Opening Older Scenes

April 14, 2020

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Finally, those Mental Ray legacy assets are outta Max. The only issue is that Max and MR may have written some nodes and custom attributes into your older scenes. So when they are opened, you get some confusing prompts and may not be sure how to proceed. This may help you.

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Tagged: 3D Max · Legacy · Max 2021 · Mental Ray · VRay

Comments

medlenen

November 15, 2020 at 11:59 am

Because you don’t have folder from Max 2020 with NVIDIA files.
Put this (NVIDIA) folder to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2021\Plugins
Then you be happy!
_link to my copy
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtrESfGiGVPArPMjfPxgOMnd95OqEA?e=Nlx5BQ

Chris Mighton

October 26, 2020 at 5:05 pm

This is awesome but have you found a way to stop max from converting all materials to physical materials and instead keep the VRay materials in place?

joel

October 26, 2020 at 5:07 pm

Unfortunately no I have not.

Alex Marks

August 29, 2020 at 9:19 am

3ds max 2021 doesn’t have an NVidia folder so you need to point it to the 2020 version.
Go to “C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\ 2021 – 64bit\ENU
find the Plugin.User.Settings
make sure it looks like this:
[Directories]
Additional MAX plug-ins=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2021\PlugIns\
Additional MAX plug-ins NVIDIA=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2020\PlugIns\NVIDIA\Plugins\
[Help]

P_Man

August 21, 2020 at 2:39 pm

I tried this, but the dll missing keeps happening

joel

August 21, 2020 at 2:43 pm

Perhaps it is using a reference, and that reference has to be opened and saved again with this method as well? I haven’t had issues since using this besides in cases like that.

3D Max 2021 Finally Removed Mental Ray, Here’s How To Avoid Scene Errors When Opening Older Scenes

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