Sort of bad news
Added 2022-09-26 06:51:46 +0000 UTCSo I found all my original files but I also just found out that mental ray, the renderer I used for the original animation I just showed you, was discontinued a few years ago lol. So many of the lights and textures in the scene are no longer available.
This means I need to replace them all in the scene and possibly have to learn the renderer that replaced Mental Ray. It's called Arnold.
I think I'm going to have to switch everything to Scanline rendering. It's going to take even more time and it's going to look quite different from what I posted but it's still possible.
This is what happens when things are started and stopped I guess!
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Apparently older versions of max with mental ray were available for a bit but that was a while ago.
Ardra Neala
2022-09-27 16:58:25 +0000 UTCwe used mental ray in school. there is no directory full of old archived files for it?
Terry
2022-09-27 03:52:08 +0000 UTCBummer!
Brian J. Parker
2022-09-26 12:35:43 +0000 UTCI think the best course of action is to quickly block out everything and then put back more realistic textures after.
Ardra Neala
2022-09-26 07:15:40 +0000 UTCTo further explain, all the animation I showed you was rendered in 2018. And it wasn't rendered completely or in best quality. And the rendering used to make it is no longer available from Nvidia. Sucks.
Ardra Neala
2022-09-26 06:55:11 +0000 UTC
