In short:.) Those builds have 2022 support, yes.) That 3.6 GB download is the V-Ray Material Library coming to V-Ray for Maya (it will only download the full thing once per machine and download any deltas/changes after that).) There's many other additions and improvements, we'll post detailed information once we're ready (hopefully any day.
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Chaos Group, a leading provider of state of the art rendering solutions for the media, entertainment, and design industries, has released an update to VRay 5.00.20 for Maya 2017-2020, a major update to its Academy Award-winning CPU and GPU production renderer. Used on recent television and film projects including 'The Fate of the Furious,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' and 'Stranger Things,' this update brings faster rendering, more responsive look development and added realism to high-end VFX and animation projects.
- V-Ray 5 for Maya is a production-proven ray-traced renderer with a full suite of tools to create professional photoreal 3D imagery, animations and visual effects. Its extensible customization options and powerful lighting, look-development, and quick post-processing features save users time, let them go beyond just rendering,.
- V-Ray 5 for Maya 30 day evaluation Evaluate V-Ray for Maya and all of its features for free for 30 days. This 30 day evaluation grants you full access to V-Ray and all of its tools. V-Ray 5 for Maya was built to meet the creative demands of CG artists and modern production pipelines.
System Requirements:
OS Combability:
Maya 2017-2020:Windows 10 Professional
CPU:Intel® Pentium ® IV or compatible processor with SSE3 support.
RAM:4 GB RAM and 4 GB swap minimum - recommended 8 GB or more RAM, 8 GB or more swap file
WHATS NEW
Build 5.10.21 (V-Ray 5, update 1.1 official) (16 July 2021)
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New features:
-V-Ray: Maya 2022 Python 2 support in the stable nightlies;
Modified features:
-V-Ray Material Library: Downloader tool support for Linux and MacOS as well;
-V-Ray Material Library: Support for drag'n'dropping library materials in the Hypershade and anywhere in the viewport;
-V-Ray Material Library: Adding the same material twice is now possible through 'Add to scene';
-V-Ray Material Library: Applying the same material to another object is now possible through 'Apply to selected object(s)';
Bug fixes:
-VFB: Fixed a freeze when loading a background image after rendering;
-VFB: Fixed single-channel EXRs not saving corrections;
-VRay2sidedMtl: Fixed crash with black translucency in specific scenes;
-V-Ray: Fixed some V-Ray metadata not written to EXR with batch rendering;
-VRayBerconNoise: Fixed world texture mapping floating when camera is animated;
-V-Ray: Fixed regression with non-ASCII characters in vrscene path with standalone;
-V-Ray: Fixed Image format options UI opens on fullscreen in Maya 2022;
-VFB: Fixed errors with test resolution when no VFB is used;
-VRayBlendMtl: Fixed default viewport preview color for non-textured mode;
-V-Ray/USD: Fixed instanced USD files not rendering properly;
-VFB: Fixed 'Clear Frame Buffers' option not working;
-VFB: Fixed purple banding with OCIO;
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-VrayToon: Fixed incorrect inner edges with opacity;-V-Ray: Improved rendering speed for Alembic files on many-core CPUs;
-V-Ray GPU: Fixed GPU light cache error when aborting render;
-V-Ray GPU: Fixed crash with ExtraTex and GPU light cache;
-V-Ray GPU: Fixed fireflies with refractive materials;
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