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6.1 Rendering Algorithms

If incompatible options are given to mental ray, some of them are overridden to return to a consistent state. In mental ray 1.9.9.20 and higher, including mental ray 2.x, the strategy was changed: instead of re-enabling ray tracing if any other feature such as lenses are used and ray tracing was explicitly turned off, the newer versions do not turn ray tracing back on but change the operation of the feature normally requiring ray tracing. The following features are affected:



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