Writing mental ray shaders A perceptual introduction Install the fully functional mental ray® demo version This CDROM contains a fully functional version of mental ray and a license that will allow you to run it on your computer. The installation process will copy mental ray and the SPM licensing software to your file system. If you are currently attached to the Web, a license will be requested from mental images and sent back to your computer. You will then be able to render with mental ray. Enter the CDROM version of the book’s website The shader source code, scene files, other data, and additional explanations are available on the book’s website at http://www.writingshaders.com/. This CDROM also contains a copy of the on-line website made when the book was published. Once you’ve installed the software and license, you can compile the example shaders and start rendering the scene files with mental ray.

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