This new release of RenderMan for Maya 22 (RfM), includes a number of new features to address feedback as well as many improvements to RenderMan for Maya workflow and performance. Many parts of the plugin have been completely rewritten to improve integration into Maya and simply worflow.
Please see the release notes below for all the new capabilities and known issues!
Now you can render through all stages of your pipeline! From modeling to final renders, RenderMan is designed to give you immediate feedback from inside Maya. By skipping the export of a scene to RIB, artists can get an immediate look at their work in full ray traced mode and continue to interact and make changes without needing to restart the render.
Render to the same window where you work! Move objects, make modeling changes, add and alter materials and lights, even import and update asserts without needing to stop the render. RenderMan becomes your viewport at all stages!
Better organization, smart exposure of options and attributes, and more-native workflows mark this iteration of the RenderMan for Maya plugin.
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
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