Any news on when Vray for Maya 2022 will be released?

[pmorain@gmail.com]

Autodesk just surprised us with an odd gap-year release of Maya 2022. It doesn't seem all that feature rich (especially for the first major update in 2 years) but there are some new things that I'd like to try out - however, it's of no use to me until Chaos supports Vray on it. Does anyone here working for Chaos know anything about development or has anyone heard any news?

[hermit.crab]

Can't say for certain, however, we are working on it. We already have internal builds for Maya 2022, which will be released when stable.

[pmorain@gmail.com]

Great, that's good to hear - thanks for the reply! Looking forward to it

[Avesani]

Hello guys... good news!

[oglu]

Downloading now!

[oglu]

What is that 3.6 GB download during the install?

[damaggio]

Thank you Avesani for the heads up.

[yolov]

It appears you're beating us to it - we are planning on sharing more information on what's in these builds very soon (there's a few things still somewhat WIP).
In short:
*) Those builds have 2022 support, yes.
*) That 3.6 GB download is the V-Ray Material Library coming to V-Ray for Maya (it will only download the full thing once per machine and download any deltas/changes after that)
*) There's many other additions and improvements, we'll post detailed information once we're ready (hopefully any day now), but those include VFB improvements (masks, background layer, stamp layer, etc), VRayMtl improvements, Cryptomatte improvements, Environment Fog improvements, GPU improvements and many more.

[damaggio]

Wow, so many goodies, thanks Alex.

[francomanko]

cant wait for the vfb masks..nice

[Avesani]

Hi all!
I was only able to test Vray 5.1.2 in Maya 2022, when I put a light area and click on Toggle targer, it is freezing in Maya.
can anyone tell if it's happening to you?

used build, vray_adv_51020_maya2022_x64_30749

[yolov]

when I put a light area and click on Toggle targer, it is freezing in Maya.

Confirmed. It happens on my end too, I'll log a bug. For me, this happens when I toggle to disable the target - is it the same for you?

[oglu]

Is there a way to not install the shader lib?

[yolov]

Yes, when you run the installer, on the screen that says 'INSTALL / ADVANCED' - click Advanced, and on one of the next screens there is an option to download the library or not.
But if you've downloaded it once, it will not download a second time - so installing the next build will not download anything.

[Avesani]

Confirmed. It happens on my end too, I'll log a bug. For me, this happens when I toggle to disable the target - is it the same for you?

For me it's happening when I activate and deactivate the target, I left it frezzed, spent a while and came back, clicked again to deactivate and frezzed again.