i dont know. from my knowledge (rendering with mental ray book), rendering with standalone means alot of command line commands.SreckoM wrote:@Kzin question for you, what is your opinion on buying MR standalone to be used with SI? It there any meaningful workaround that one can use? Will that give more freedom to user?
if you think about it to overcome the integration problems, you will need to write alot of custom commands in bat files.
this could end up of several a4 pages of text. you could download the mr demo und try it by yourself, but you have to know all the commands which you need to call the ibl light for example and replace lights or shaders. its possible, but i dont think one second to do this, because i know the examples from the mr book. ;)
and also keep in mind, if you output the ibl from xsi for example, it uses the xsi geo shader also in standalone with all the problems. so the best way here would be to output the mi without ibl and insert the ibl thru commands in bat files.
someone with experience in that could give a more detailed awnser. perhaps in the mi forum, most of them uses custom commands and renders with standalone.