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Remove legacy mental ray nodes

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Remove legacy mental ray nodes

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- [George] Hi I'm George Maestri and today we're going to take a look at Mental Ray nodes and specifically we're going to look at old files that were rendered in Mental Ray that you're bringing into newer versions of Maya and those files will often have errors associated with them. So we're going to show you how to get rid of those errors. So here I have a Maya 2016 file and as you can see, it is using Mental Ray to render. Now Maya 2017 does not have Mental Ray by default so if you were to bring this file into Maya 2017, you would get an error. But just before we do that, let's take a look at what this would render like. So this particular file here has a blend shader, a car paint shader, which is a Mental Ray specific shader and a lambert shader. So I'm going to go ahead and save this out as an ASCII file. Now this is important because you do want to be using Maya ASCII files because it gives you the most freedom in editing the file. So I'm gone ahead and saved this out as Mental…

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