Standalone Doesn't Find Dgs, Mi_car_paint..?

[dickagm]

Hi all, I'm new in mr standalone.
My general problem is that exported from maya mi scene with any of the mr shaders (DGS,Dielectric,mi_car_paint..) does not render on standalone even after editing and removing the maya.rayrc from the mi file.
Maybe I'm missing something in the settings. A simple test scene with plane with lambert and sphere with dgs is exported via File>Export All to .mi file and when I do "ray.exe -v 5 test.mi" it renders the plane but the sphere is black because DGS not found! and there's warnings like this:

API 0.0 warn 302004: C:\Program Files\Alias\mentalray3.45\/include/physics.mi, line 38: while defining declaration "physical_lens_dof": declaring nonexisting function physical_lens_dof

Please help me, what have to do for making these shaders to be visible for standalone?

10x in advance

[mcgergs]

The reason you were having these issues was the renderers did not have those shaders in its libraries for reference.

navigate to this directory in your master machine using Maya:

C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya7.0\mentalray\lib

hit ctrl+a and then ctrl+c to copy.

For Mental Ray Standalone paste these files into:

C:\Program Files\Alias\mentalray3.45\lib\

For Mental Ray Sattelite paste these files into:

C:\Program Files\Alias\mentalraysatellite3.4\lib\

Now all your Mental Ray libraries match on your master machine and slave machines.

[dickagm]

I've found that even with using -L and -I options with pointing exactly in "c:\programs\mentalray\lib and include" mray does not find the libraries that are there by mray default instalation and gives error for mising shaders like DGS,... And then I found that I dont have setted environment variables for mr standalone:

MI_ROOT=c:\programs\mentalray
MI_RAY_INCPATH=c:\programs\mentalray\include
MI_LIBRARY_PATH=c:\programs\mentalray\lib

after that I renamed "rayrc" to "ray3rc" and also changed its content, from default:

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registry "{MAYABASE}" value "C:/Programs/mentalray" end registry

registry "{SYSTEM}" value "windows" end registry
registry "{DSO}" value "dll" end registry

$lookup "{MAYABASE}"

registry "{_MI_REG_INCLUDE}" value "{MAYABASE}\include" end registry
registry "{_MI_REG_LIBRARY}" value "{MAYABASE}\lib" end registry

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to this one:

registry "{MAYABASE}" value "C:/Programs/mentalray" end registry

registry "{SYSTEM}" value "windows" end registry
registry "{DSO}" value "dll" end registry

$lookup "{MAYABASE}"
$lookup "{SYSTEM}"
$lookup "{DSO}"

registry "{_MI_REG_INCLUDE}" value "{MAYABASE}\include" end registry
registry "{_MI_REG_LIBRARY}" value "{MAYABASE}\lib" end registry

registry "{MR_START}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/base.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/physics.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/mayabase.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/contour.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/subsurface.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/paint.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/mi_openexr.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/mayahair.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/mix8layer.{DSO}"
link "{MAYABASE}/lib/bumpCombiner.{DSO}"
end registry
$lookup "{MR_START}"

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and finaly shaders like bumpCombiner and L-Glass must be copied by hand from maya\mentalray\lib and include to mentalrays defined above in ray3rc directories.
hope this will help someone