Vray for Maya 3.5

[FSGFX]

We are planning a Pipeline update for End of April.
How far away is 3.5 for maya.?
Would liket upgrade the Pipeline in one go...

[vlado]

It should be out before the end of April.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bvoldm]

Will we see an online licensing/dongle free option coming with this update?

[vlado]

Will we see an online licensing/dongle free option coming with this update?

Yup.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jasonhuang1115]

Hey Vlado,

Can we expect to see glossy fresnel to be exposed in UI of regular VrayMtl and VrayAlSurface (if not out-of-box already) for 3.5 official release? Did a search in the forum and seems right now one have to go through (Create > V-Ray > Create from V-Ray plugin > BRDF material > BRDFVRayMtl).

[vlado]

It is built into the alSurface shader (there is no way to turn it off). It will be exposed in VRayMtl and will be enabled by default for newly created materials.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jasonhuang1115]

It is built into the alSurface shader (there is no way to turn it off). It will be exposed in VRayMtl and will be enabled by default for newly created materials.

Best regards,
Vlado

Awesome! Thanks so much.

[bvoldm]

It's here! Was very excited this morning to install this so I could get online licensing up only to be quickly greeted by "NO LICENSES AVAILABLE" notice. Confused I scoured the forums to see what's going on and came across mentions of dongle licenses vs online licenses -"Unfortunately at this point is not possible to transfer/migrate licenses from a dongle to online."

Am I correct in understanding that only new licenses are available for online and if I have an older dongle license then I'm out of luck?

Best
Ben

[vlado]

It is for the moment a precaution, nothing more. We know that the dongle licenses work fine without major issues, so we would prefer users who have those, to continue with the dongles for the time being. On the other hand, the online licensing is new and it will take a bit of time until we polish things in terms of user experience.

Best regards,
Vlado

[rimcrazy]

Actually makes sense. I was curious and downloading 3.5 for Maya right now. I also have 3.4 for Modo and was wondering if I would have problems with Modo on a dongle and Maya not. Dongle is not a huge issue at the moment and would prefer to see you get all the kinks out before you push net license out. Looking forward to see the new features in 3.5. Will you have support for Houdini 16 soon? Your current beta is on 15.5 but I've upgraded to 16.

Keep up the great work. Loving Vray more especially with all of the Autodesk madness with Arnold and now licensing.

[vlado]

I also have 3.4 for Modo and was wondering if I would have problems with Modo on a dongle and Maya not.

It should be fine. The license server can handle licenses stored in different place.s

Will you have support for Houdini 16 soon?

Yes, we are working on it - hopefully by the time we have builds for the Autodesk 2018 releases we will also have Houdini 16 builds.

Best regards,
Vlado