I recently wrote a document for Autodesk about the typical steps around the usage of mental ray in 3ds Max for architectural visualization workflows. I thought I would share it here since it may benefit many 3ds Max users, especially beginners.
My goal was to create a document where the main features of 3ds Max are [...]
Manufacturer-based glazing data
Several glass manufacturers provide optical data to the Windows® operating system and Daylight Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (http://windows.lbl.gov).
This group maintains a database and publishes this data via a program called Optics 5. From Optics 5 you can then export a Radiance Material (*.rad file), which can be interpreted
as mental ray [...]
If you happen to edit mental ray shaders or MaxScripts in UltraEdit, you may appreciate the attached color coding file.
Click here to download the Wordfile.txt file for UltraEdit (Right Click | Save Target As…)
Install it in your UltraEdit installation folder:
When opening a mi file you should see something like this:
