Viewport enhancements

[pechart]

Hey!
Most likely this is not really your business at chaos, but maybe you can do something about it:
It would be really really helpfull to see the reflections of a HDR (environment/lightdome) in the vray material in the viewport. I don't know if you have access to that kind of stuff, but it would be a nice feature.
Also it would be very nice to control the UVPlacement of the environment with a standart manipulator in the viewport, not only with the sliders in the UVEnvPlacement node.

Oh, and another question. Is there any kind of API for vray for Maya available? Or is it intended by you that people can't write custom stuff?

Thanks!

[vlado]

The V-Ray SDK comes with every installation of V-Ray for Maya; there is a lot of sample code included.

As for the viewports, as you know Autodesk does a lot of development effort in this area (i.e. Viewport 2), so it would make sense to wait and see where they go before spending some serious effort on that.

Best regards,
Vlado

[pechart]

Thanks again! I think you're right on the viewport thing. But we all know how fast and good ADSK implements new features But lets see, what happens.