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V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Update Now Available

A V-Ray 2.0 for Maya update is now available, offering new hair and fur capabilities, V-Ray RT GPU enhancements, and tighter Maya integration. The update is free for V-Ray 2.0 for Maya customers.

New Hair and Fur Capabilities

• A new VRayHairMtl shader to render hair and fur with unprecedented control, quality, and speed.

• Extra attributes to apply materials to Maya’s native hair.

Rendering by MFX AB

V-Ray RT GPU Enhancements

• V-Ray RT GPU now supports texture-mapped rectangle and mesh lights, simple light portals, and the VRayBlendMtl.

Additional Improvements

• Optimized memory usage and multithreaded performance for dynamic geometry.

• Optimized Irradiance Map and Light Cache to reduce flickering when using time dependent option of the DMC sampler.

• New Flakes material.

• Improved support for standard Maya shading nodes.

Rendering by MFX AB

Installation and Deployment Improvements

• Now Mac OS users can benefit from the user-friendly GUI installer for both VLRService and V-Ray for Maya.

• Windows and Linux OS users can easily take advantage of the two installation options: executable installation or an archive file for easier deployment on a cluster of machines.

Click here for more information
 

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