Vray 3.3 and Maya 2016 extension 2

[VISUALMAN_TOKYO]

I am going to upgrade to Vray 3.3 and also considering to install the extension 2 for maya, and just would like to check if there are any compatibility issues with the new render management tools of Maya.

[t.petrov]

Maya 2016 Extension 2 is not supported by the 3.30.02 release.
The API/ABI or 2016 ext2 is not the same as for Maya 2016, so you'll need a build specifically for this version.

We'll have an official build hopefully soon. In the next days we'll have support for it in the night builds.

[VISUALMAN_TOKYO]

Thanks for the info!

[dorkabilly]

Good to know. Please let us know when the nightly version is good to go with extension 2.

Thanks much.

[t.petrov]

The night builds should be already working with 2016 ext2 (2016.5 builds).
There are some small bugs, but they should be usable.

[dorkabilly]

awesome. Thanks for the info!

[dorkabilly]

looks like the OS X version is still in the works. I didn't see the 16.5 version on the nightlies. I am sure it will be there soon. Thanks for all the help.

[yolov]

Yes, the OS X version, as usual, needs more work than the rest. We'll get there soon.

[CAPTURE_MM]

We have the vray installation sitting on a network drive.
For the environment variables (for the 2016 extension 2) which are set in the maya.env

is it:

VRAY_FOR_MAYA2016_5_MAIN_x64
VRAY_FOR_MAYA2016_5_PLUGINS_x64
VRAY_OSL_PATH_MAYA2016_5_x64

or

VRAY_FOR_MAYA2016_MAIN_x64
VRAY_FOR_MAYA2016_PLUGINS_x64
VRAY_OSL_PATH_MAYA2016_x64

thanks in advance!

[t.petrov]

You have to use 2016_5, because this is a separate version and the 2016 and 2016.5 plugins are not compatible.

[CAPTURE_MM]

ok thank you!
I´m evaluating the new renderlayer system right now to see if there´s any advantage in using it together with vray as these collections are similar to vray object properties but seem to be more dynamic and also reusable for other scenes (although kind of buggy as well).

Is it possible to add the object property attributes (like matte surface, Generate Render Elements etc.) directly to an object (without the use of an object property) so I can assign these attributes as absolute overrides to a collection of the new system?

[vlado]

We haven't decided whether we want to do this yet...

Best regards,
Vlado

[KMPixelbox]

Hi, where can I get the night builds?

[CAPTURE_MM]

Hello,
me again....
We are having problems with the right click menu when the vray plugin is loaded.
See attached images.

For testing purposes I started Maya without the vray plugin being loaded.
Everything works fine.
Then I load the vray plugin and shortly after some panning, rotating, focusing objects or entering stuff into the channel box, the right click Menu though working doesn´t show any labels.

We are using: vray_adv_33501_maya2016.5_x64_26742

[vlado]

Did you do any rendering or just having the plugin loaded is enough to cause the issue? Did you have the Attribute Editor open?

Best regards,
Vlado