VRayScene with MASH

[MarkWalker]

Hi Guys,

Is there a way to get the Maya MASH instancer to render a vrscene asset?
FYI attached screen shot. Vrscene file renders fine alone but wont render when instanced by MASH.
Any help would be great thanks.

Cheers.

[stezza]

Can I ask first why a VRscene file and not a proxy? Just for some back ground

[MarkWalker]

Hi,
Yeah I just did more testing, it does work with the vray proxy. The reason I like using vrscene is because it keeps the shaders when you make/export the file. Some assets I want to use have like almost 100 shaders. Yes I can spend 10min re connecting them all but I was just wondering if I can skip that using vrscene. Thanks.

[MarkWalker]

Also keeps the base scene clean, if im using proxy, there will be 1000 shaders in the scene if I pull in a bunch of tree/car assets etc. using vrscene for each asset contains the shaders to the vrscene file. If im making sense.

[stezza]

Ok cool, It does work if you create the MASH network with Geometry type set to Mesh rather than instancer

[MarkWalker]

hrm, they are rendering as the proxy display geometry. Just FYI I'm testing this using maya 2025 and vray nightly 70001_maya2025_x64_32816.