{"id":1490,"date":"2017-10-26T12:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/fachsupport\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:20:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:20:39","slug":"vray-for-maya-2018-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/2017\/10\/26\/vray-for-maya-2018-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Vray For Maya 2018 (PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

V-Ray 3.6 for Maya 2018 is now available for the Stockwell Street PCs (first floor studios and 2001 lab).<\/p>\n

The Vray plugin does not load automatically with Maya; it needs to be specifically selected in the Maya plugin manager:<\/p>\n

In Maya select<\/p>\n

Windows > Settings\u00a0\/ Preferences\u00a0> Plug-in Manager<\/p>\n

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Type vray into the search box to narrow down the list of available plugins then click load and autoload for both vrayformaya.mll<\/strong> and xgenVray.py<\/strong> and close the dialogue window<\/p>\n

Now\u00a0Vray will be available as a renderer for Maya (alongside Arnold, Maya); select<\/p>\n

Windows > Rendering Editors > Render\u00a0Settings<\/p>\n

select V-Ray from the Render Using drop down<\/p>\n

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The current renderer is now set as Vray – and an additional Vray toolbar will be available.\u00a0 In that is a button to switch on the Vray Frame Buffer; click this to open the the Vray render windows plus associated render buttons etc.<\/p>\n

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V-Ray 3.6 for Maya 2018 is now available for the Stockwell Street PCs (first floor studios and 2001 lab). The Vray plugin does not load automatically with Maya; it needs to be specifically selected in the Maya plugin manager: In Maya select Windows > Settings\u00a0\/ Preferences\u00a0> Plug-in Manager Type vray… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-computer-techniques"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/designsupport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}