Better support for Max's ActiveShade

[davius3d]

As of Max 2020, we've seem quite a few changes on Max's viewport and activeshade. This later gives the user the ability to directly manipulate the scene on a IPR environment, display edge lines, model, etc.

It's a definite step up on a simple IPR viewport.

https://youtu.be/yPDRxIfaHfM?t=115

Would be nice if VRay properly supported that too

[yavor.rubenov]

Hello,

That is already supported in V-Ray Next for quite some time (since 4.10.01) - there is viewport IPR with both V-Ray and V-Ray GPU available.

Best regards,
Yavor

[davius3d]

Hello,

That is already supported in V-Ray Next for quite some time (since 4.10.01) - there is viewport IPR with both V-Ray and V-Ray GPU available.

Best regards,
Yavor

You're indeed correct! I did test while it was still in the Beta, and I must say I'm pleasantly impressed on how VRay's IPR turned out on the viewport! I suspect this takes advantage of the advancement made on the active shade fragment in Max to leverage that cool interaction?

At any rate, nice job!

[yavor.rubenov]

At any rate, nice job!

Thank you

Indeed it needs some of the fragment code in Max to work (and this is the reason we don't support it on older versions).