V-Ray Material Library materials - texture preview crashes Maya 2023

[MannaTheBerserk]

Whenever I try to change the view mode to "Textured" (that is press "6" on your keyboard), and a material from V-Ray Material Library is applied to my objects, Maya crashes straight away.

It only happens with those materials.

Just try it yourself: create a plane, apply a material from the V-Ray Library, press 6 on the keyboard. Crash.

Maya version: 2023.3

V-Ray version: 6.00.3 hotfix 1

This is quite bad, because it keeps us from previewing textures in the viewport, unless we don't do it by launching an IPR.

Does anyone have a solution, or is it just a big annoying bug?


Thank you

[MannaTheBerserk]

Update regarding this issue.

I have completely uninstalled Arnold for Maya, because just disabling it was not enough ( some scenes forced Maya to turn Arnold back on, for some reasons ).

That seems to have fixed it.

So, if you find yourself in the same situation, don't just disable Arnold, it won't 100% work. Instead uninstall it completely with its uninstaller. This way the issue is gone.


Thank you