How to show V-Ray textures in Hypershade?

[Fredrik Averpil]

Anyone know how I can make the V-Ray-specific textures (Create → V-Ray → Texture from V-Ray plugin) show up in the Hypershade's node list?

[t.petrov]

There is no as far as I know and I don't think it is possible to be implemented.

[vlado]

This is possible to do in the latest nightly builds if you tell V-Ray to automatically create and register a Maya shading node for a particular texture type. However that means that you have to:

a) Get a Maya plugin ID for the shading node from somewhere, and
b) Generate a shader description file that specifies the plugin ID for the shader and describes its parameters.

In the latest nightly builds, this is done for example for the V-Ray multiprojection texture.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Fredrik Averpil]

Ah, thank you!

If possible, I think it would be pretty nice to have these show in the node list of the hypershade by default for future releases of V-Ray.

[bigbossfr]

Ah, thank you!

If possible, I think it would be pretty nice to have these show in the node list of the hypershade by default for future releases of V-Ray.

Hi,
For me no, i don't want this. Or, in the hypershade, have a category for this. But i think it is a bad idea to merge Maya texture nodes and low level VRay texture nodes, because some Maya texture....use low level VRay texture.

[vlado]

I'm with bigboss on this one; it might make sense to expose some shaders, but it would be an overkill to do it for all of them (and some are only intended for internal use).

Best regards,
Vlado