Miscellaneous Changes

• Imported older PxrDomeLights will now be reversed. To correct this, remove the negative scale from the X axis.
• TCL has been removed
• INI files are now in JSON configuration
• The projection editor is removed, native Maya projections are supported.

Known Limitations

RenderMan for Maya

• Deselecting "Receive Shadows" does not work.
• Creating a mesh light from existing geometry during IPR will duplicate the geometry in-render. Restart the render to remove the duplicate.

Alpha Limitations for RfM - These are expected to be resolved before release

• RfM may crash on a second IPR session using Xgen Archives

• OpenVDB

• Dicing cameras

• Materials and visibility overrides on instances

• Texture Manager, remaining bugs to resolve

• Maya Dynamics, various bugs remain.

• Render selected objects only not yet supported

• XGen geometry archive support.

• Projections do not render correctly.

• View statistics, remaining issues to resolve

• Display and Sample Filters not present

• Rendering straight to the Viewport, some remaining bugs

• Material assignment to archives (RIB Archives, Alembic archives)

• Alembic procedurals do not render.

• Stereo cameras do not render

• Denoise workflow is not available in the Alpha

• Checkpoint + Recovery not available in Alpha

• PaintFX  ??

• Holdouts not available in Alpha

• Baking not available in Alpha

• Clipping planes not available in Alpha

• Attributes not supported for Alpha

  • dice:micropolygonlength

  • trace:bias

  • trace:displacements

  • trace:autobias

  • trace:intersectpriority

  • shade:indexofrefraction

  • dice:watertight