Physical Camera bugs

[dmarques1177]

Once I check my v-ray attributes for the physical camera they are supposed to come in the v-ray extra attributes nice and neat on the bottom of the camera settings with only a handful of essential controls. Most of the time however they show up under extra attributes in a not so nice and neat way - just wondering if there is a fix for that.

Also once in Physical camera mode I cannot get my viewport to match my camera settings (it locks my "fit resolution gate drop-down to Horizontal instead of fill). This is a pain in trying to position my camera in the scene. I won't know what is going to fit until I render out an image, so every time I have to move my camera I need to hit render.

So, v-ray physical camera attributes menu and fit resolution gate to match viewport are giving me some trouble.


I am on Maya2012 for windows XP, V-ray 2.0

[vlado]

Once I check my v-ray attributes for the physical camera they are supposed to come in the v-ray extra attributes nice and neat on the bottom of the camera settings with only a handful of essential controls. Most of the time however they show up under extra attributes in a not so nice and neat way - just wondering if there is a fix for that.

Nope, for the moment there is no fix for this I'm afraid. Otherwise the Maya Presets don't function properly - it's a Maya thing. We had the controls hidden from the Extra Atributes rollout initially, but users complained that they can't use the Presets feature.

Also once in Physical camera mode I cannot get my viewport to match my camera settings (it locks my "fit resolution gate drop-down to Horizontal instead of fill). This is a pain in trying to position my camera in the scene. I won't know what is going to fit until I render out an image, so every time I have to move my camera I need to hit render.

You can use V-Ray RT to preview your camera, but in any case you should be able to get accurate preview in the viewport... can you post a scene where you have problems?

Best regards,
Vlado

[milena.sarneva]

Once I check my v-ray attributes for the physical camera they are supposed to come in the v-ray extra attributes nice and neat on the bottom of the camera settings with only a handful of essential controls. Most of the time however they show up under extra attributes in a not so nice and neat way - just wondering if there is a fix for that.

Do you mean you ONLY see the attributes in the Extra Attributes section and not in VRay Extra Attributes? As there was an issue with Maya 2012 not refreshing the Vray attributes and it was fixed in mid-May. If that is the case, a newer build should fix it.

[sharktacos]

Do you mean you ONLY see the attributes in the Extra Attributes section and not in VRay Extra Attributes? As there was an issue with Maya 2012 not refreshing the Vray attributes and it was fixed in mid-May. If that is the case, a newer build should fix it.

We are experiencing this. We are in the middle of a job and so updating on all the machines is unfortunately not an option right now.
Was there a workaround for this? The only one I have found is to restart Maya which quite hassle.

[milena.sarneva]

What version you are using? Please, let me know if it is one after May 2011 when it was fixed. Otherwise you just need a newer build. Or I can give you the updated mel file.

[sharktacos]

We have the older version installed currently (before May 2011), and unfortunately can't update to the new version (2.2) while on the current job. So the updated mel would be great.

[milena.sarneva]

OK then. Please send me your vrayUpdateAE.mel file to milena.sarneva AT chaosgroup.com
I will merge it with the newer version to make sure we would not break anything in the process.

[honzal]

Maybe a small hint as we have had this same issue too - with 2012 Maya ... and found out it is related to graphics card driver (Maya problem then) so we found which driver works. Also if you are on Win 7 don't turn Aero feature off as it is disable some libraries which Maya 2012 uses to run properly ( from UI point of view speaking)

best

Jan

[sharktacos]

OK then. Please send me your vrayUpdateAE.mel file to milena.sarneva AT chaosgroup.com
I will merge it with the newer version to make sure we would not break anything in the process.

Sure, can you tell me where I can find the vrayUpdateAE.mel file?

[milena.sarneva]

It is in your Maya folder/vray/scripts

You will need to save a copy of it just in case and then replace it with the one I'll send you.