Major Differences Between V-ray And Mental Ray in 3ds Max

by Ravi Bhadauria ADMEC Multimedia Institute

Architectural Interior designing is one of the rapidly growing industries in India and offers wide range of career opportunities for aspirants. To enter in such a prosperous field, one need to have sound knowledge of all the required applications for instance AutoCAD, Revit, 3ds Max etc. Especially 3ds Max since it is a leading application for designing live interior and exterior scenes.

But how this software makes a live scene? Well it is due to powerful rendering applications such as V-ray and Mental Ray which professionals used to give the final touch to the project.

In this article we are going to read about the characteristics which make these unlike with each other. Along with comparison, we'll check out the that which one is best? So, let's start from an overview of both the applications.

What is V-Ray?

To define what this application is all about? we can say that it the backbone of 3ds Max. Yes, it is as it a computer-generated imagery rendering application which renders the drawing and converts them into a spectacular output.

Let's look into its history. It is developed and published by Bulgarian company and Chaos group that was established in 1997 at Sofia.

Nowadays, it is certainly ya most famous and used its own GPU render engine.

Major Works done by V-Ray are:

Architectural visualizations
Computer graphics
Product designing
Industrial designing

Major Industries where V-Ray used are:

Industrial design
Media
Film entertainment
Video games production
Product design etc.

How is V-Ray Different From Mental Ray?

Its price is $ 1000 for a plug-in.
It is used for the architecture visualizations and computer graphics.
Anyone can learn and work with this application.
It is easier and faster to set up for a high-quality rendering.
This application provides fast speed while rendering if you want 3d motion blur with reflection.
It has some unique shaders for architecture slice, curvature maps and dirty.
If we look at the time then V-ray is much faster than Mental Ray.
It has its own external render window known as a window frame buffer and used for color corrections.
This rendering software can be used as a commercial plug-in for the third-party 3d computer.

What is Mental-Ray?

Mental ray is known as the production quality rendering application which is used for different purposes such as animations, visual effects, design industries etc.

How is Mental Ray Different From V-Ray ?

It is a production quality rendering application.
It comes with 3ds max but we have to pay for this too.
It is used for animation and cinemas.
It is mostly used by professionals and skilled animators.
It is harder and slower to set up for a high quality of rendering but it provides shaders, workflow, and coding which assist in making the project more alive.
It has innovative MILA shaders are mostly used by the artists.
It doesn't have any render window.

Some Other Basis of Comparison:

If we look at the image, the glass coffee table thickness looks too diffuse in mental ray.

V-ray is superior in quality than Mental ray as it render looks much better on the basis of color corrections and effects. On the other hand, Mental ray has delivered more detailed GI and realistic image for the final production quality render.

So, as per the whole article we have reached the conclusion that V-Ray is better than the Mental ray especially as per the view of architectural interior designing.

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