It must be xmas…
Im down…
YES! Oh’ how i waited for this news.
Good timing - as i’m switching to maya right now.
Hope i can join.
Yeah Sascha we are making the switch too.
Just sent off my email…fingers crossed!
Why are u all switching to maya now? I´m not sure of maya´s future in the hands of autodesk :?
now if instead it was vray for XSI, I’d definitely jump on board.
agree!
no no no no no. please, do not start the whole thing again. XSI on the way… but right now - MAYA…
'tis a thread about vray for maya beta. Lets keep it clean 
well maya gives me headaches whenever i look at it but congrats on getting the beta out for it. i know you have made alot of people happy
I would love to beta this, been hoping something would come along to replace that darn mentalray…
/BlueShift
your right, my apologies. 
at a cost of…
ya thats been in the works for awhile now. But as peter put it, this thread is about vray for maya, so I think we should keep it about that.
A few things to note about that renderman thing. First off, renderman can even come close to the raytracing and GI abilities of MR let alone Vray. Next, this is a highly limited version of renderman as you don’t have access to slim or any custom shaders. The renderman for maya has nothing to do with MTOR (maya to renderman). I am a big renderman user and enjoy it a great deal. The renderman for maya is just giving people a taste of the look of renderman without the power.
bring on vray for maya!
ooo good news. I now a few non vray using , vray loving, maya people who will be very happy with this news
I think vray for maya will benefit 3dsmax-to-Maya pipelines too. Although i´m a max user, i´ve struggled with the issue to convert max scenes to maya for my fellow maya user to render, but all materials and nice render thingies were lost. Now, I expect it to be a big step in collaboration between studios, eliminating a lot of the hassles we had to face in the past and softening -to some extent- the fights about what software we should use…The answer is: use whatever u want, because the well-known vray is at the end of the chain to help u get the job done! 
VERY GREAT NEWS!!!
what are the principal function which this version has ?
Is it base on the 1.093.X or 1.47.X or the latest 1.5 (with SSS,physic sun/sky,…)
However thanks a lot for your effort;)
mickael attia
senior artist
DURAN