Material Select Render element not supporting mdl

[pkelsall]

Could anyone shed some light on whether mdl materials can be added to Material Select Render elements.

I want to add mdl materials as layers in blend materials, and render the layers separately to control in comp. The shaders work in the beauty RGB and in all contribution passes, but only black in the material select. Is this feature not supported for mdl?

Thanks
Paul

[yolov]

Yes, this is know and is already in progress. I'll let you know when it's done.

[pkelsall]

Hi Alex,

Do you have any updates on this at all? It would be good to know how long it will be before a fix is implemented. We're running VRay for Maya 3.6.04 at the moment. Would a fix be implemented as part of a nightly we could test?

[yolov]

Hey there,

I've been able to track down the information in our system. Although we have some improvements, this is still not fixed for MDL. We've fixed it for other materials where it wasn't working correctly and this fix will be part of the official V-Ray Next for Maya release, but we're still figuring out how to fix it for MDL, as it turned out to be a bit more complicated.
Sorry to disappoint you and I hope we'll make more progress soon.