V-Ray Future Hair/Fur Plans?

[waaazoo]

updated test... should be a bit better

[hellobard]

hey vladimir,
why are there no 2010 Maya darwin updates anymore? it's just for 2011(!).
would really love to try the maya fur

[timdog]

Damn that was nice wazoo! Love it. The word "what a coughar" suddenly have a meaning

[vladimir.nedev]

The build will be there later today, I've just started it on the build machine.
Maya fur is not working though. This build has support for Maya Hair. They are very different internally. Autodesk have just confirmed there is no way to access Maya fur, so we have to either try to simulate its behavior ( much like procedural textures) or enhance the V-Ray Fur options.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[hellobard]

excellent, thank you vladimir!
ah i misread, i thought it was maya's fur system. no worries though, vray fur is pretty spectacular as it is... should be fun to play with maya hair in vray

[vladimir.nedev]

The build should be there now. It will say maya2010_leopard, not darwin.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[waaazoo]

last time I looked at nightly builds the win maya2010 was not ready (some day ago) but i will try that mith maya hair even if i don't have much experience with hair.

regards,

olivier

[waaazoo]

here is a little test with Maya hair/Vray. As i said before, i am not really familiar with maya hair, so i used a preset and tried to match my model.
One rendered on one node and the other with DR. Normally there are no textures, only procedurals, but i will investigate why we have black squares.... (maybe a bug ? / used Feb 22 build)

[vladimir.nedev]

Hm, strange, did you update the render slave to the latest build as well ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[waaazoo]

well, yes. i will do it again to be sure...

[waaazoo]

It's the same build, but when i install i get (on the end of install process) an error message: "an error occured during installation, do you want to undo......"

master is Win 7 64 and slave is winXP 64

[vladimir.nedev]

Can you scroll up the list of installed files, there should be a FAILED somewhere, it will tell us more what went wrong.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[waaazoo]

it's just FAILED: modify blablabla/ creatMayaSoftwareCommonGlobalsTab.mel


on the slave there is no Maya2010... that's it i think...
so that should not be the problem, right ?

[vladimir.nedev]

No, it shouldn't be a problem. Do you get any errors in the slave window ? And what V-Ray version and date does it show ? I've just tested the distributed rendering with Maya hair and saw no problems.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[waaazoo]

No i have no errors on the slave window, that's why i asked.

[2010/Feb/22|16:52:53] V-Ray: V-Ray for Maya version 1.50.00 from Feb 21 2010, 07:50:12
[2010/Feb/22|16:52:53] V-Ray: V-Ray core version is 1.90.02

(vray_adv_15000_maya2010_x64_10626)