V-Ray for Maya
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Additional Tools
This page provides links and information on all the external tools that are installed with V-Ray for Maya.
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Check for Missing Cosmos Assets
This page provides information about the Check for Missing Cosmos Assets tool in V-Ray for Maya.
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Convert Scene for V-Ray
Тhis page provides information on the Convert Scene for V-Ray tool.
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Create V-Ray PluginNode
This page gives information about the creation and use of V-Ray nodes from plugins included with V-Ray for Maya.
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Denoiser Tool
This page provides information on the V-Ray denoising tool available on all platforms.
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Export Materials to MaterialX
This page provides information about the Export Materials to MaterialX tool in V-Ray for Maya.
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Export Materials to USD
This page provides information on the Export Materials to USD option.
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File Names for Bitmap Textures
V-Ray allows several different suffixes for the names of bitmaps used in the File shading nodes. In addition, when tiling textures, special file-naming conventions may be used as illustrated in the sections below.
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Image to Tiled Multiresolution EXR Converter
This is a tool that is common over all V-Ray installations.
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Import V-Ray Material from File
This page provides information on the Import V-Ray material from vrscene dialog.
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Internal Tools
This page provides information on the often used tools in V-Ray for Maya that can be found in the drop-down menu of V-Ray menu > Tools.
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Irradiance Map Viewer
The irradiance map viewer can be used to view, merge and save irradiance map files created by V-Ray.
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Layers
The Layers panel in V-Ray Frame Buffer provides a new, powerful workflow for making adjustments to your rendered image. You can bring out render elements and compose them together with individual color corrections in the panel's Composite mode, or deconstruct light contribution in the scene and fine-tune each light...
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Lens analysis tool
The lens analysis utility is the primary tool V-Ray supplies for creating, previewing, and editing of V-Ray lens files (*.vrlens), and contains a camera distortion analyzer, and a tool for correcting/distorting images. The VRLENS files can be used in 3ds Max, Maya etc. to provide realistic (measured) camera distorti...
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Lens Effects Filter Generator
This page describes the Filter Generator for Lens Effects.
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Lens Effects Layer
This page provides information on the Lens Effects layer found in the V-Ray Frame Buffer.
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Live-Link to Chaos Vantage
This page presents an overview of the Live-Link to Chaos Vantage feature.
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Masks
This page provides information about the V-Ray Masks.
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Menu Integration
This page provides information on how V-Ray integrates into the standard Maya menus.
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Migrate Legacy Scenes
This page outlines the usage of the built-in migration scripts for legacy scenes.
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OBJ GEO PLY to .vrmesh converter
This page describes the ply2vrmesh command-line utility.
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Opacity Cutout
This page provides information about the Opacity Cutout tool in V-Ray for Maya.
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Tiled OpenEXR and TIFF Files
V-Ray for Maya supports the use of tiled OpenEXR (.exr) and TIFF (.tx, .tex) files with MIP maps. This allows V-Ray to load just parts of a given texture during rendering in order to save memory. When you are using tiled OpenEXR or TIFF files with mipmaps V-Ray automatically recognizes this and loads the appropriate...
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V-Ray Frame Buffer
This page provides information on the V-Ray Frame Buffer and its features.
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V-Ray Image to EXR Converter
This is a V-Ray application that is common across all V-Ray installations.
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V-Ray Material Library Browser
This page provides information on the V-Ray Material Library Browser in Maya.
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V-Ray Menu
This page provides information on the V-Ray menu integrated in Maya's main toolbar.
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V-Ray mesh viewer
This page describes the V-Ray Mesh Viewer and its usage.
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V-Ray Profiler
This page provides information about the V-Ray Profiler tool.
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V-Ray Shelf
This page provides information on the V-Ray Shelf.
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VFB Settings
This page provides information about the V-Ray Frame Buffer settings.
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Visual Debugger
This page provides information on the Visual Debugger tool in V-Ray for Maya.
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