viewport 2.0 support for VRay materials?

[jasonhuang1115]

Hi,

I saw the new feature of Viewport 2.0 shown in Maya 2012 demos. I am wondering if Chaos is planning to work on the viewport 2.0 to support for VRay materials; or even better by making it render-able with the new Maya Hardware 2.0 renderer?

[vlado]

We will definitely work on getting V-Ray materials represented in the viewports; we won't spend much time on the hardware renderer specifically - if both can be done with the same code, that would be good, but if not - we would prefer concentrating on the viewports.

Best regards,
Vlado

[pechart]

Yep, Viewport first!

[jasonhuang1115]

Thanks, Vlado. Glad that the direction is focusing on the viewport first. The fast Hardware 2.0 rendering to me is just a handy feature when I want to render out a sequence for higher quality pre-viz, replacing the platblast.

[pechart]

Aehm, what's Hardware 2.0? Never heard of this before. There's only the Viewport 2.0 as far as i know.

[jasonhuang1115]

Aehm, what's Hardware 2.0? Never heard of this before. There's only the Viewport 2.0 as far as i know.

Check their demo video about the Viewport 2.0. You will see they render a 4K image of what you see in the Viewport 2.0 in 3 seconds, using the Maya Hardware 2.0 renderer shown in the Render Global.

[pechart]

Ah, okay, thanks. So, what he says is, that the Hardware 2.0 renderer actually IS viewport 2.0. So this should be easy to transfer.

[snivlem]

Good news!

Can't wait to see the shiny new V-Ray representation in the viewport 2.0!

[jasonhuang1115]

Good news!

Can't wait to see the shiny new V-Ray representation in the viewport 2.0!

Maybe that's part of the VRay for Maya 2.0? Though not sure when it will be released...