Cosmos materials crash Maya 2024

[mattock]

Hi, anytime I try and import a material from Cosmos library it crashes Maya 2024. I know that its known to be incompatible with Arnold. There used to be the same issue importing assets from cosmos but this works now.

I'm on Maya 2024.2 and the latest Vray 6, so I was hoping it would work together by now.

It's suggested to disable Arnold , but whenever I try, it crashes Maya! It works on a fresh, clean scene, but then needs disabling with all your Maya scenes, and then just crashes every time... I'm just stuck. I dont want to have to uninstall Arnold as I do use it as well as Vray

How has everyone else overcome this? My Arnold is 5.3.4... there is an update to 5.4. Will this help?
Many thanks!

[vladimir_krastev]

Hi, thanks for posting. I will investigate if there is any way to avoid this crash, As a workaround you could disable Arnold from the plugin manager. There is an older thread about the same issue here.
Do you have crashes with every Cosmos material or only with specific ones? Please share which assets crash Maya in your tests.