shave & Haircut in IPR crashes Maya

[sharktacos]

shave & Haircut in IPR crashes Maya.

Also the "hide hair" option in the shave menu does not work (vray still renders it), which means that a scene with shave hair in it cannot use IPR at all.

Any workarounds or fixes?

[BadRobotProductions]

It works fine on my end hiding the shave hair with the RT render.
You're not going to get any RT output, however, until Joe comes up with a plugin to allow it.

You can always manually set the hair nodes visiblities to off.

[sharktacos]

It consistently crashes for us. I've tried it on a few machines. Launching a vray IPR render will crash Maya every time (even when the hair is hidden).

The problem is not that Shave does not work in IPR (that's a feature request), but that a scene with Shave hair in it does not work in IPR at all and crashes Maya (which I would call a bug). Mental Ray and Maya renders also do not work with Shave in IPR, but they will just ignore the hair, and do everything else.

Is it a version thing? I'm running Shave 5.5v15, and Vray 1.5SP1 build 14367.

[BadRobotProductions]

You know..you should try removing the shaveVray pre and post render lines in the render globals which should effectively disable the shave render callouts and see if that gets a scene rendering for you.