Posted by Torgeir Holm on 6.2.2012 | Category: V-Ray news
Chaos Group have release a free update to V-Ray 2.0 for Maya, bringing new Hair & Fur capabilities, V-Ray RT GPU enhancements and several other new features.
What's new:
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 standard Maya shading nodes
Installation and Deployment Improvements
• Now Mac OS users can benefit from the user-friendly GUI installer for both VLRService and V-Ray for Maya
• Windows and Linux OS users can easily take advantage of the two installation options on our website: executable installation or an archive file for easier deployment on a cluster of machines
This is a free update for V-Ray 2.0 for Maya users and is available in the download section on www.chaosgroup.com for registered users.