iRay for Maya 2013

[tomcao]

Hi all,

I was wondering does anyone know Maya 2013 support iRay? Or iRay only come with mental ray Standalone. I couldn't see any sign from Autodesk.

Thanks,
Tom

[Remydrh]

iRay was not integrated into Maya (not an nVidia decision)

3ds Max, Cinema 4D (plugin), and Bunkspeed all have integrations available for iRay.

[VinnieR]

Since iRay is still not officially supported by Maya 2013, can I ask if anyone knows if the 2012 method of getting iRay to work still applies with Maya 2013? I have been trying without any success

I am using 3.10 libs, same strings

I was just starting to get my head around all of this cool Mental Ray stuff, It would be a shame if I can't get iRay 2.0 to work in Maya 2013.

The Unified Sampling stuff still works fine, actually even better with the new BSDF shaders

[Stephan]

Although it's not integrated as Remydrh mentioned ...I've been using the great UI tweak from Hans Baldzuhn (Mini-Zun)

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=1018119

It's still working fine in maya 2013.

[shangu]

... thoses threads are about 2012.

Progressive is still crashing IPR in latest release.
I think i'll go to Octane to take benefit of my Tesla invests.

[steve]

Hi,

Progressive is still crashing IPR in latest release.

that is unfortunately true, we were not able to fix it in time inside mental ray 3.10 due to other priorities for Maya 2013.

We hope to get it into an update release like a hotfix.

Best, Steve.

[tomcao]

Very disappointed!!!

I wish mental ray and iray sold separate from Maya, NOT integrated into Maya. Then if I want use iray, I can make a purchase. Now I have no choice.

Thanks for all your replies,
Tom

[steve]

I wish mental ray and iray sold separate from Maya, NOT integrated into Maya.

Indeed, that sounds like a viable option for the future.

Best, Steve.

[shangu]

If you can provide a maya plugin, relatively soon, i would be glad to make the invest "Qualität/Preis" - i mean before we move to another renderer
I wait for ADSK to quickly end with the EOM contract with Nvidia ...

JOB 0.10 progr: 50.0%

[Stephan]

... thoses threads are about 2012.

Hence my "It's still working fine in maya 2013" part. I don't use IPR so can't comment on that.