Chaosgroup Vray for Maya 2.0 Beta

Today i've installed Vray 2.0 beta. Installation was easy.

The texture + shading in viewport works fine in Harware texturing.

In default quality render like mental ray (it was not enable in vray 1.5).

I've tested RT, so i've tryed the caustics and the texture placement.

So it's a base for comparaison.

CAUSTICS

CPU

Clean render, i've not tweak to have an accurate one, just a test. Very Fast, nice release.

                                                

GPU RT

100 % of CPU threads, fast but caustics are not good, especialy in the shadows area.

But for a non-caustic shader, it's a very good thing. We can rotate, an IPR of the future!

I've pushed a little more and test the texturing with RT.

                                                          

CPU RENDER

CPU RT

GPU RT

OOPS THE TEXTURE TILING

As you can see the CPU RT is very very nice, fast and accurate. GPU RT seems to be not ready for a serious use. It's not fast, not accurate with texturing.

We can't say that it's my video card, i've got a Quadro 6000 with last Nvidia release. Maybe a think to improve for the final 2.0.

My opinion is that Vray 2.0 for Maya is very close of the Max version. I'm not a pro user of Vray because of Mental, but i'm interesting for using it. It's very fast compare to Mental, a lots of improvement. Vray 2.0 is a very nice release, not so expensive, very clean results.