V-Ray for Maya
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ACEScg Workflow Setup
This page provides information about the proper ACEScg color space workflow with V-Ray for Maya.
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Color Management with V-Ray
This tutorial explains how to use Maya's Color Management System with V-Ray.
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Continue a render with Resumable Rendering
This page provides details on using V-Ray's Resumable Rendering feature.
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Controlling Shadows Using the Sampler Info Node
This page provides a guide on using the Maya Sampler Info node with additional V-Ray Attributes to control what items receive shadows.
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Creating God Rays Effect
This page offers a guide on how to create the God Rays effect with V-Ray.
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Creating Masks for VRayBlendMtl Sub-shaders
This quick tutorial guides you through the different ways of creating masks for sub-shaders of the VRayBlendMtl.
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Disabling Motion Blur of Animated UVs
This example shows how to disable the Motion Blur effect on animated UVs using V-Ray post-translate script, while preserving the effect on the object .
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Displacement bounds
For displacement textures with negative color values, automatic displacement bounds work when the displaced image is a single non-animated file on non-subdivided geometry. For animated files and/or for geometry that renders as subdivision at render time, use explicit bounds and set white/black bound to minus somethi...
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Fur Sampler Texture Setup
This page provides a tutorial for using the Fur Sampler node with V-Ray Fur.
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GPU Guide
This page offers a beginner's guide to GPU rendering with V-Ray.
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Hair Sampler Texture Setup
This page includes details on the hair Sampler node used with V-Ray hair.
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Houdini to Maya Alembic Workflow
This tutorial is a general guideline on how to export geometry through the alembic format and render it with V-Ray for Maya.
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How to Add Render Elements to Render Layers
This short guide shows how to work with render elements for specific render setup layers.
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How to Apply Motion Blur to Cached nParticles
This workflow explains how to render motion blur, when rendering nCache.
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How to Create a Global Override Material
This tutorial outlines how to add a global material override for all objects in the scene with V-Ray for Maya.
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How to Create Iridescent Materials with Thin Film
This tutorial covers some easy steps for creating several iridescent materials: soap bubbles, as well as colored ceramic and pearl-like cat figurines.
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How to Create Sand with VRayDecal
This tutorial guides you through the process of creating desert sand using multiple V-Ray Decals.
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How to Make a Paper Lantern
This tutorial covers how to make paper objects with VRayMtl2Sided.
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How to Make Candle Wax
This page offers a tutorial on how to create wax material with V-Ray for Maya.
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How To Make Glass
This tutorial explains the steps of creating a glass material with V-Ray.
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How to Make Hardwood Floor
This page provides a tutorial on how to make a hardwood floor with VRayMtl.
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How to Make Rocks with VRayTriplanarTex
This tutorial covers how to create rock objects with VRayTriplanarTex texture.
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How to Make Skin with VRayAlSurface
This tutorial covers how to make a skin material with VRayAlSurface material.
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How to Make Translucent Fabric
This page provides a tutorial on how to make realistic translucent fabric with VRayMtl2Sided.
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How to Make Translucent Plastic
This page offers a tutorial on how to make a translucent plastic material with V-Ray for Maya.
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How to Make Water
This page provides a tutorial on creating a water material with VRayMtl.
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How to Output UV Pass Using Sampler Info RE
This tutorial shows how to create a UV pass using the Sampler Info render element.
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How to Preview Viewport Lighting
This page gives information on how V-Ray lights illuminate objects in Viewport 2.0.
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How to Use Substance Textures with VRayMtl
This tutorial shows how to import textures from Substance Painter and Substance Designer into V-Ray for Maya and then use them with VRayMtl.
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Legacy Distributed Rendering Workflow
Sometimes, rendering an image is a fast and straightforward process. Other times, rendering a good-quality image can take quite a bit of time. This is why breaking up the task of rendering over multiple computers can be helpful for completing long renders much faster. In this tutorial, we go over setting up and usin...
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Live Link to Vantage from Different Machine or OS
This guide shows how to set a live-link connection from V-Ray for Maya, which runs on Linux or macOS, to Chaos Vantage, which runs on Windows.
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Local Assets Cache Setup
This tutorial explains the setup for keeping a local copy of the assets needed for rendering.
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Metal Shaders
The following chart provides Diffuse and Reflection Color values that help you create realistic metallic shaders with V-Ray for Maya:
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Multiple zDepth channels in Nuke with multichannel exr
https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/v-ray-for-maya-forums/v-ray-for-maya-general/988379-problems-with-z-depth-render-elements?p=988708#post988708
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Paint FX Constant Line Width
This example using Post-Translate Python Script shows how to set a constant hair width in pixels, effectively applying it for Paint FX toon lines.
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Remove self shadowing from a mesh but still cast shadows
copied from https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/v-ray-for-maya-forums/v-ray-for-maya-general/980136-remove-self-shadowing-from-a-mesh-but-still-cast-shadows
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Rendering Mudbox Vector Displacement with V-Ray
This page shows a tutorial on using a Mudbox texture for displacement in V-Ray.
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Rendering Refractive Surfaces
This article discusses how to use V-Ray for rendering refractive surfaces that are in contact. This is a typical scenario for scenes with liquids contained in glass or other transparent, or semi-transparent containers.
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Rendering Very Large Images
This page provides a tutorial on rendering large images with V-Ray.
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Rendering ZBrush Displacement with V-Ray
This page covers how to render a ZBrush displacement map with V-Ray. If you would like to see how you can render ZBrush Vector Displacement with V-Ray, please see this tutorial.
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Rendering ZBrush Vector Displacement with V-Ray
This page covers how to export a vector displacement map from ZBrush and render it with V-Ray. For a tutorial on how to render a ZBrush Displacement map in V-Ray, please visit this page.
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Tips and Tricks
This page offers some tips and tricks when working with V-Ray in Maya.
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Universal V-Ray Settings
This page provides information on V-Ray settings that work for most scenes.
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V-Ray Fur Styler Setup Tutorial
This page includes a guide on styling V-Ray Fur.
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V-Ray Shadow Catcher
This tutorial walks you through the steps of creating a shadow/matte catcher.
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VRayMultiSubTex - Random by instance ID with particle instancer
copied from https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/v-ray-for-maya-forums/v-ray-for-maya-general/985102-vraymultisubtext-random-by-instance-id
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XGen Animation and Motion Blur
This page provides a tutorial on using XGen Animation and Motion Blur with V-Ray.
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XGen Archive Primitives
This page provides a tutorial on using XGen Archive Primitives with V-Ray for Maya.
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XGen General
This page provides prerequisites and basic information on using XGen with V-Ray for Maya.
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XGen Spline Primitives
This page provides a tutorial for using XGen Spline Primitives with V-Ray.
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XGen Tutorials
This page describes the XGen tutorials available for V-Ray for Maya.
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