V-Ray 3.0 for Maya is ready for battle

[chaosmarketing]

V-Ray 3.0 for Maya is here. With a powerful new set of features and optimizations focused on speeding up lighting, look development and rendering workflows, V-Ray 3.0 for Maya is ready for battle.

Features include:

• Faster Ray Tracing and Rendering Performance
• New Progressive Image Sampler
• Enhanced V-Ray RT CPU and V-Ray RT GPU
• Optimized Hair and Fur
• Improved SSS with new VRaySkinMtl shader
• New Phoenix FD Shaders with support for OpenVDB and Field3D
• Max Ray Intensity, Probabilistic Light Sampling, Render Masks
• OpenColorIO, GGX, OpenEXR 2.2, Ptex and Alembic 1.5 compatibility
• Bifrost and XGen Maya 2015 support

Learn more at v-ray.com/maya.

[vlado]

In case you are wondering, a more extensive list of features is listed below. Documentation is available at http://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/V...Maya+Help+Home

Core features
(*) Extensive optimizations for render speed both across the V-Ray core and the other rendering components;
(*) New progressive image sampler;
(*) "Render mask" option to (re)render only a subset of the scene nodes;
(*) Probabilistic light sampling;
(*) Integration of Intel's Embree library;

Maya 2015 features support
(*) XGen support (splines and archives);
(*) Bifrost support;

Shading languages
(*) Support for the Open Shading Language through VRayOSLMtl and VRayOSLTex shading nodes;
(*) Support for GLSL shaders through VRayGLSLMtl and VRayGLSLTex shading nodes;

Volume rendering
(*) Phoenix FD shader is now integrated for rendering of Maya fluids;
(*) VRayVolumeGrid node for rendering grid based volumetric formats (OpenVDB, Field3D) using the Phoenix FD shader;
(*) Support for Maya fluids and VRayVolumeGrid in V-Ray RT CPU;
(*) Deep output support for volumetrics;

Hair
(*) Optimized performance and memory usage;
(*) Added view-dependent curve tesselation;
(*) Added VRayFurStyler tool for texture-driven styling of VRayFur;
(*) Improvements to the V-Ray hair shader;

Texture baking
(*) Support for baking to vertex color sets;
(*) Support for baking to PTex;
(*) Support for baking to UDIM textures;

Open standards support:
(*) Support for Alembic 1.5 through the VRayMesh node;
(*) Support for OpenSubdiv subdivision surfaces;
(*) Support for OpenColorIO color corrections in the VFB and through the VRayOCIO shading node;
(*) Support for OpenVDB and Field3D volume formats through the VRayVolumeGrid node;
(*) Support for OpenEXR 2, deep output and multi-part output images;
(*) Support for Open Shading Language shaders;

V-Ray RT improvements:
(*) V-Ray RT CPU is now the same as the production V-Ray renderer and supports nearly all features;
(*) V-Ray RT can be used as a viewport renderer;
(*) V-Ray RT GPU includes support for render elements and more shading nodes;

Improved .vrmesh and Alembic support:
(*) Support for hair and particles from .vrmesh and Alembic files;

Shading improvements:
(*) Several new shading nodes, including VRaySkinMtl, VRayPointParticleMtl and others;
(*) Improvements to VRayFastSSS2 (raytraced multiple scattering)
(*) GGX BRDF support in VRayMtl material;
(*) Support for materials from .vrmat/.vismat and .vrscene files through the VRayVRMatMtl shading node;

Isosurfaces:
(*) VRayMetaballs geometric primitive for direct raytracing of metaballs surfaces from particle systems;
(*) Isosurfaces from volume grids through the VRayVolumeGrid node;

V-Ray frame buffer improvements:
(*) Dockable in the Maya UI;
(*) History and color corrections tool windows are dockable to the main VFB window;
(*) Additional color corrections (hue, saturation, color temperature, contrast, custom background etc);
(*) Ability to apply lens effects (bloom/glare);
(*) Support for OpenColorIO display corrections;

Best regards,
Vlado

[Avesani]

HI!!! Great News!!!
I can make mine upgrade online? Where?

Thx you

[andybot_cg]

Will there be a separate standalone available for purchase? When I bought 2.0, it was the Maya standalone, will I be able to upgrade to 3.0 through the same?

[jpwestmas]

I didn't see a place to purchase the upgrade at Vray.com. Do I have to go through a reseller?

[joa_grilo]

Contacting the reseller right now!

The beta as awesome!

[Christophe.Cot]

Will there be a separate standalone available for purchase? When I bought 2.0, it was the Maya standalone, will I be able to upgrade to 3.0 through the same?

The V-Ray Standalone 3.0 is (will be) supported through the V-Ray Render Nodes 3.0.
If you purchased V-Ray Standalone 2.0 separately from V-Ray 2.0 for Maya, you will be able to upgrade it using the V.Ray 2.0 Render Nodes to Universal V-Ray 3.0 Render Nodes upgrade pricing.
Contact us at sales@chaosgroup.com if you have any questions.

[Christophe.Cot]

I didn't see a place to purchase the upgrade at Vray.com. Do I have to go through a reseller?

Our official product site is www.v-ray.com (mind the dash sign). Other sites are not affiliated nor managed with/by us.
We strongly rely on local support thanks to our resellers so yes you will need to contact one of our resellers.
Some of them provides e-commerce platforms for online purchase, others prefers a more personalized touch so feel free to contact them in any case.

[jpwestmas]

Our official product site is www.v-ray.com (mind the dash sign). Other sites are not affiliated nor managed with/by us.
We strongly rely on local support thanks to our resellers so yes you will need to contact one of our resellers.
Some of them provides e-commerce platforms for online purchase, others prefers a more personalized touch so feel free to contact them in any case.

ah ok, I forgot that www.vray.com was in fact Visual Dynamics. I didn't realize they were a separate entity from www.v-ray.com heh.