All vray settings (including volume shader) disappeared

[wizzackr]

This is rather annoying and has now happened a couple of times: We are working on a larger scene and reference two - again, large - assets into the scene. Once in a while when opening the master file it loads all nice and dandy BUT all vray settings are gone inluding volume shader etc.

Really bums me out to constantly set the whole thing up again and again. Any idea where this could be coming from? Assets reside on a servers, prefs stored locally... I mean: WHere do the settings get stored anyways - are they wriutten into the maya file I assume?

[yolov]

That's... odd to say the least. What V-Ray and Maya version is that?
Also - is this with referenced scenes?

All V-Ray settings are stored in a node called vraySettings and just like with any other node - it is stored with the Maya scene.
If you happen to know how we can reproduce it here, this will significantly increase the chances of fixing it.

[wizzackr]

Hi Yolov, thanks for getting back to me. It is on Maya 2018.2 and the VRay version is V-Ray | Maya 3.60.04 (28141)

[yolov]

OK, could you describe in a bit more detail what are your steps? You reference in multiple files? If yes - do those files contain vraySettings? Then when you say that the settings disappear - do they just not show up in the render settings window? Is VRay still loaded in Maya (you can check the "loaded" status in the plugin manager)?

[wizzackr]

I just encountered the problem again. Different project. Anywhere I can send you the file, yolov?

[yolov]

I'll PM you the details.