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Application Plugins
Mental Ray 3.4.5, 3.5.8

Editor Plugins:
Plugin Name Description
ImfDisp Launches the Mental Ray image viewer to display a sequences of images.
Action Plugins:
Plugin Name Description
MRayMakeShader Generates a C source file containing definitions and function stubs for a Mental Ray shader based on a shader definition file.
MRayShader Compiles C source files to generate a custom Mental Ray shader.
MRayShaderInclude Generates a Mental Ray scene fragment which specifies the locations of a set of shader definition files and dynamic libraries.
MRayTexture Generates optimized Mental Ray memory mappable pyramid textures from source images.
MRayTexturePack Generates optimized Mental Ray memory mappable pyramid textures from a series of pre-filtered level source images.
MRayTextureUnpack Extracts the pre-filtered level source images from an optimized Mental Ray memory mappable pyramid texture.
MRayCamOverride Builds a list of MI statements that can override camera settings as an increment.
MRayInstGroup Builds MentalRay "instgroups" statements for instances in source MI files.
MRayRender This action pulls together multiple MI files, parses them for pertinent information, builds temporary render MI files from the parsed information, and then renders images from the temporary render MI files.
MayaMiShader Exports shaders for the correct Mental Ray rendering pass based on the name of the source.
MayaMiExport Fine grained export of Mental Ray entities from a Maya scene. Expensive static or non-deforming geometry can be exported once, while animated entities are exported on a per-frame basis vastly improving export time on complex scenes.
MRayRenderGlobals Creates a MEL script which when executed by Maya will set many of the most useful global rendering parameters of the Maya scene specific to the Mental Ray renderer. Can also be used as a Pre MEL Script of MayaMiExport.
MayaMRayRender Takes a source Maya scene, exports a monolithic MI file for each frame that contains everything in the scene and then renders it with the Mental Ray standalone engine.
HfsMRayDS Generates an OTL containing Houdini dialog scripts for a set of MentalRay shaders.
Tool Plugins:
Plugin Name Description
MRayAddTextures Registers and links Mental Ray memory mappable pyramid textures and source images to a texture grouping node.
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