

Anyway when you work on high-res renders you can take a great advantage of distributed rendering in Mental Ray. You should know that not any kind of render operation is parallelizable, for the truth a lot are still single core compiled (like hair and fur generation).

You can find more information to the official Mental Ray Nvidia website website.Īutodesk Maya comes with 3 node licences, in theory it means a speed up performance of 300%, in pratics it's 190% with 1 master and 1 slave, and its 250% with 1 master and 2 slaves when we are working in a multi-core optimized scene. Since Mental Ray 2017 this guide is obsolete, now there's a new simple method to do distributed render in Mental Ray but you need a MR license to make it work.
