Mental Ray not rendering Xgen

[4kickin]

I am 100% sure that in the Preview/Output tab > Output settings > Renderer is supposed to be set to Mental Ray (just like in all the tutorials). The thing is, is that it says None, so I am unable to render out my model with Xgen, I just get the model.

I have spent a few hours trying to figure out why, Mental Ray is installed, It is able to render fine because some of my assets of my mesh have an MR material on them and they are fine.  The only issue in my book is that for Xgen the Renderer is not set to Mental Ray, but I can't set it. Please I need help!

Any and all help is welcome. 

[jaybrin94]

Hi there! I'm new to Xgen and found myself having the same problem. I checked in Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager and found an xgenMR.py plugin. It was already "loaded" but wasn't taking effect. Loading it again and restarting Maya did the trick. Now mental ray shows up as an option in the Output Settings > Renderer tab. Hope that helps!