Using MDL in Maya 2016

mental ray 3.13 supports many features of the Material Definition Language from NVIDIA. Maya 2016 allows you to use custom libraries of MDL materials in a limited fashion for this initial integration.

The official mental ray blog has posted directions on how to take advantage of MDL in their post today from Sandra.

Take a look and download the MDL library with example files. If you’d like to learn more about writing MDL, visit the MDL Handbook page: mdlhandbook.com

Future integrations will improve the capabilities and supported features inside Maya.

MDL used in Maya 2016