Maya 2019 Release

[Alvaro Letelier]

Maya 2019 is what many of us animators were waiting for. Animation cached frames real time ! Pure gold !

[stezza]

What do we want?

"VRay NEXT for 2019"!

When do we want it?

NOW!!

all together now!!

[Muhammed_Hamed]

We already have internal builds that we want to test some more before giving them out

I mean we can help you guys with testing if you release it

[yolov]

I would recommend you check our progress report on 2019 support in this thread: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...-for-maya-2019

As a note - we've ported 2019 support to the stable builds, so if you have access to those, you can get a build and start testing. Just keep in mind the issues with the sets, as described in the progress report thread, because you'll run into it and we can't fix it without help from Autodesk:

"""
Outliner issue with sets
Summary: Set objects disappear from the outliner.
Description: Creating V-Ray objects of type 'set' (like the LightSelect RE, VRayDisplacement, etc) will not show up in the outliner. The same behavior is observed with other ‘set’ objects, including objects created by other plugins and native Maya set objects. Sets can also appear multiple times in the outliner or they can disappear after creating another object. The issue does not affect the scene itself - only the list of objects in the Outliner is affected. Many V-Ray workflows rely heavily on sets and this bug seems to be a significant impediment for users’ workflows.
Workaround: Force-refreshing the outliner can be used as a workaround. For example - applying a filter in the outliner and then removing it.
"""

Once we've solved this (and anything else that's critical and potentially comes up) we'll officially release V-Ray for Maya 2019.