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Status Pending
Integration V-Ray for Maya
Categories USD
Created by Michael Hickman
Created on Feb 28, 2025

Allow USD models to render native Maya-Vray shaders

For those with a library of Maya V-Ray shaders (which may use vray-specific features), it would be nice to be able to apply a material override to the USD models and assign the native maya-vray shaders, so vray knows to ignore the USD's models shader and use the regular maya-vray material

  • Michael Hickman
    Aug 18, 2025

    Just wanted to add that without this feature, the only alternative is to bake every dynamic texture sequence down for every object to work with the normal native USD workflow. This creates a lot of extra work and/or pipeline scripting when it would make life much simpler to use our pre-existing vray-maya shaders as they are to override the USD material bound to each model