An early preview of DeeX VRay Arsenal. The Maya/V-Ray workflow plugin has just been released commercially.

Damien Bataille has released DeeX VRay Arsenal, a new workflow tool for rendering Maya scenes in V-Ray.

According to Bataille, who has worked as a lighting TD at VFX studios including Mac Guff and Duran Duboi, the plugin is the result of a year of work, and has been in private beta testing for a month.

DeeX VRay Arsenal is designed to accelerate common production tasks. Features include:

• Pass manager
• Adjust object properties on the fly
  Create a black hole or control the primary visibility, reflection, refraction and GI in one click
• Matte on the fly
  Create masks in one click. Forget IDs: just select your object. Bonus: you can create hierarchical masks!
• On-the-fly rendering
  ? Automatic material ID (works with blend material)
  ? Automatic object ID into proxy
  ? Render your scene with a Lambert to check your lighting in one click. Displacement and bump will be kept
  ? Create a Light Select RenderElement on the fly, manually or automatically
• Fast control
  Control your render settings quickly, with GI presets
• Quality control
  ? Control the quality of your render with one slider
  ? Set the quality (subdivisions) of your materials automatically in one click (based off the glossiness)
  ? Add a quality offset for part of your render (irradiance map, LC, AA, and so on)
• New tools to make your working life easier
  ? Import multiple proxies in one click
  ? Connect shader(s) to proxies in one click (with or without namespace)
  ? Material ID manager: Add, remove, or set materialID in one click
  ? Object ID manager: Add, remove, or set objectID in one click
  ? Material control: Control subdivisions, interpolation and max depth of your materials quickly
  ? Lights control: Control subdivisions of lights quickly

DeeX VRay Arsenal is available now for Maya 2011 and above and V-Ray 2.4, running on 64-bit Windows. According to Bataille, Mac OS X and Linux will be supported in future. A single licence costs €69 (around $95).

Read more about DeeX VRay Arsenal on Bataille’s website

Register for the free 30-day trial edition of the plugin

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