Maya 2011 Hotfix 1

Autodesk releases its first Hotfix for Maya 2011. Download it from the Autodesk website.

The Hotfix addresses these limitations:

• Maya crashes when navigating through menus on Mac 64‐bit.
• Viewport renderer plugins do not work
• mental images Material no longer respects refraction limit
• mental images Material Ambient Occlusion color bleed stops Final Gather bounces

Note: please uninstall Maya 2011 before you proceed to the install of Maya 2011 Hotfix 1.

For a complete rundown of what's new in Maya 2011, please read this post.

Owen

Comments

[shani]

my mental ray is appear now.
thanks buddy

[king law]

how do i install pulldown it for maya on my mac pro help!!

[Simon]

-Windows – Settings/Preferences – Plugin Manger : Scroll down to Mayatomr.mll and make sure both boxes are ticked. (autoload will make sure MR is loaded next time you run Maya)

[Ivan]

My Maya (2011 Student Version) doesn't have Mental Ray. How can I get it?

[veasna]

How to install mental ray in maya of mac?

[drde]

Thanks for the uninstall first info since the readme doesn't say nothing. Only thing i got is that maya is already installed when trying it lol.

[Strauss]

Great!
Many thanks, especially for "Viewport renderer plugins do not work" fix.

[Guy-Edouard]

how to map maya keyboard to be like xsi key map

[stephen lindley]

Hi, sorry for the post in your hotfix topic (i havent installed it yet), but wasnt sure how to, or who to etc... Have tried the area and creative crash and people are helpful, but no definite answers. I'm no tech guy, more front end (I can drive it, but wouldnt know how to change the camshaft - if you get my drift).

Have disabled network rendering and get the same error. I dont get any issues when I render a single frame.

Also if I pull the network cable out it batch renders using mental ray no probs.

I also left my previous version of maya (2009) on my machine when I installed 2011 (I'm using a mac), maybe that had something to do with it, but did read the install docs and it didn't say to uninstall previous version prior to installing.

Below is a simple scene from maya 2011 booting to a batch render. Any help is appreciated and apologise again for posting in the wrong place

Ste

file -f -new;
// untitled //
commandPort -securityWarning -name commandportDefault;
// mental ray for Maya 2011
// Mental ray for Maya: using startup file /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/maya.rayrc.
// mental ray for Maya: setup
// mental ray for Maya: initialize
// mental ray for Maya: using 1 license
// mental ray for Maya: register extensions
// mental ray Node Factory: loaded
// mental ray for Maya: successfully registered
// mental ray for Maya: loading startup file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/maya.rayrc
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/AdskShaderSDKWrappers.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/architectural.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/architectural.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/base.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/base.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/contour.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/contour.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/paint.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/paint.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/physics.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/physics.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/production.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/production.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/subsurface.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/subsurface.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/surfaceSampler.mi
// loading /Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/lib/surfaceSampler.dylib
// generating Maya nodes...
// cgfxShader 4.4 for Maya 2011.0 (Mar 19 2010)
updateRendererUI;
CreatePolygonSphere;
setToolTo CreatePolySphereCtx;
polySphere -ch on -o on -r 4.379246 ;
// Result: pSphere1 polySphere1 //
select -r sunDirection ;
move -r 6.816274 0 0 ;
file -f -save -options "v=0" -type "mayaBinary";
// Result: /Users/aw1/Documents/maya/projects/default/scenes/test_mayatomr.mb //
MENTAL RAY RENDER DIAGNOSTICS:
// 0 warning
// Error: Socket error creating command port rt-m65.ias.mediasquare.net:7835 (49). //

[owen]

Stephen,

Are you telling us this is a problem with the Hotfix?

With the renderer set to mental ray, check your Batch Render options and disable Render on Network Machines. Try rendering now.

And from this option box you can set the Verbosity Level to Progress Messages, this will give you a more descriptive error message(s).

Do you get any error messages at all when you try a single frame render ?

Owen

[stephen lindley]

an update, I pulled out my network cable and that seems to have sorted it, brilliant, but not very workable

[stephen lindley]

Guys, check this

http://www.the-area.com/forum/autodesk-maya/autodesk-maya-2011/batch-render-error-using-maya-2011/

not sure if you can help, but not getting anywhere fast