Viewport 2.0 support for all nodes (vray layered texture for example)

[BeneZ]

Is it planned once to enable a preview for all kind of nodes in viewport 2.0?
Currently often textures display only black, when some utility nodes like "vray layered texture" for example were used.
Thanks

[oglu]

Yes its really sad to not see the shaders.

[Alexx31]

Seeing shaders and textures is essential to understand what is happening and to get a quick preview!
Autodesk was this year proudly presenting how close the Arnold preview already is to the render, but I would be happy just to be able to really see everything.

[Karol.Osinski]

Hey, yeah that can be annoying at times...Maya native layered shader is supported in viewport if it interests you. My workaround for now is to isolate nodes which I wanna see from the hypershade. Imho seeing everything in the viewport would be great but if you know what you are doing with the layers it not something that would really slow your material development.

When making complex materials I quickly import the model my almost empty scene designed for material development and I do it there enjoying super fast 512x512 IPR and fast loading times as the scene is very light.

[yolov]

All valid points, thank you. VRayLayeredTex is high on our list of priorities for viewport support and we'll get there.

[Karol.Osinski]

I just wanted to link here more recent findings from francomanko (I hope he doesn't mind ) using Triplanar node in order to display layered texture in the viewport.

https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...ials-and-nodes

[yolov]

The Layered texture is not supported at the moment, as there's limitations in the Maya API that we cannot work around.
Other than that, we are constantly working on improving the viewport support, it's just that there are some roadblocks that are hard, if not impossible, to overcome.

[XavBo]

Had you tried to implement the shaders as a programed shader ?
Just for the viewport 2.0 as a CgFX shader ? Just saying loud.

Is a suggestion only.

[yolov]

Thanks for the suggestion. We've look this way too, but we have hopes that we can do it properly, as this method will be very limited.

[XavBo]

just wating what you wiill bring out

[doppelgaengerdigital]

Any updates on this one?

[yolov]

Not yet, but we'll get to it.