Having V-Ray support USD with their Hydra delegate not only future-proofs V-Ray for us, but our whole pipeline as well. “USD is truly the file format of the future. The ease of navigating around a scene or just seeing live changes is amazing. We can navigate fully textured, lit scenes, making more informed artistic choices than we could before. “Because the V-Ray Hydra delegate is snappy, we can interactively change things on the fly without having to restart the renderer. “Having V-Ray run within Solaris streamlines our layout, lighting and look dev process into one unified workflow, helping artists get real-time feedback on lighting changes, right in the Houdini viewport,” said Dan Englesson, pipeline technical director at Goodbye Kansas Studios. V-Ray 5 for Houdini will also mark the beta launch of V-Ray for Solaris, which helps artists work natively in SideFX’s USD-based shot layout and look dev tool via a V-Ray Hydra delegate. The initial Maya implementation will support several key asset exchanges, including static/animated meshes, V-Ray materials, subdivisions, displacement and more. Today, Chaos will begin providing V-Ray support to USD, giving artists more flexibility today, and in the years to come, as the technology continues to develop.
As the pipelines have grown more complex, the need for a universal format has become even more pronounced. – so artists have an easy way to share and dynamically update assets without workarounds or compromises. Initially developed by Pixar, the USD format is designed to hold the most common types of scene data – geometry, shaders, lights, rigs, hair, etc. Artists will now have a non-destructive way to collaborate and assemble their scenes, making it easier to store and move scene data between different applications. LOS ANGELES, J(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Today, Chaos introduces initial Universal Scene Description (USD) support for V-Ray 5 for Maya and V-Ray 5 for Houdini, tying two powerhouse production renderers to one of the fastest growing file formats in visual effects.
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