Chaos Group

V-Ray 2.0 for Maya Update Available

The Chaos Group team is pleased to announce an update to V-Ray 2.0 for Maya, offering new hair and fur capabilities, V-Ray RT GPU enhancements, and tighter Maya integration. The update is free for V-Ray 2.0 for Maya users.

New Hair and Fur Capabilities

• A new VRayHairMtl shader to render hair and fur with unprecedented control, quality, and speed
• Extra attributes to apply materials to Maya’s native hair

V-Ray RT GPU Enhancements

• V-Ray RT GPU now supports texture-mapped rectangle and mesh lights, simple light portals, and the VRayBlendMtl

Additional Improvements

• Optimized memory usage and multithreaded performance for dynamic geometry
• Optimized Irradiance Map and Light Cache to reduce flickering when using time dependent option of the DMC sampler
• New Flakes material
• Improved support for Maya standard shading nodes

Installation and Deployment Improvements

• New Mac OS GUI installer for VRLService and V-Ray for Maya
• Installation options for Windows and Linux users include: executable installation or archive file for easier deployment

Download here!