Radeon ProRender for Maya v2.1.20.14 Release Notes

Last Updated: April 6, 2018

Radeon™ ProRender is a powerful physically-based rendering engine that enables creative professionals to produce stunningly photorealistic images. Built on highly efficient, high-performance Radeon™ Rays technology, Radeon ProRender 's complete, scalable ray tracing engine uses open industry standards to harness GPU and CPU performance for swift, impressive results.

This Radeon ProRender plug-in for Autodesk® Maya®  is a feature rich solution which enables the user to render high quality images of their models. With this tool, users can render and then perform a host of post image processes.

The latest Radeon ProRender for Maya v2.1.20.14 plug-in can be downloaded from the following links:

• Radeon ProRender for Maya for Linux®

Radeon ProRender for Maya v2.1.20.14 Highlights

• Shadow Catcher Material is now available – objects can be marked as shadow catchers for compositing rendered shadows to a background.
• IES lights are available for using physical emission maps.
• Improved stability and raytracing performance is significantly improved in most scenes for AMD GPU hardware.
• The user can render volumes with cameras inside the volume.
• Files can be exported for interchanging between plug-ins.

Fixed Issues

• Differences when rendering refractive objects in CPU vs GPU mode.
• A crash could occur if viewport rendering and production render were running simultaneously.
• IPR stability and speed is improved.
• Fixed issue with alpha channel overriding backgrounds.
• Fixed issue with creating mesh on FBX import.
• A memory leak with editing IBL light while interactive rendering on GPU has been fixed.
• Performance when rendering many object instances on CPU has been improved.

ISV Certification Notes

• Due to Maya-MtoA software issue Trac #3142, some Viewport Draw modes for stand-ins draw an infinite line. Workaround is to toggle the Viewport Draw Mode of the stand-in in the Attribute Editor.
• Autodesk® Maya® 2017/2018 may show gray patch in playback in certain models due Maya issue Maya 41945. Workaround is to click on a different frame on timeline or to click on first frame.

Software

Radeon ProRender for Maya v2.1.20.14 is compatible with the following applications:

• Autodesk® Maya® 2016 SP2
• Autodesk® Maya® 2016.5
• Autodesk® Maya® 2017

Compatible Operating Systems

Radeon ProRender for Maya v2.1.20.14 is designed to support the following operating system platforms:

• CentOS 6.5 (Maya® 2016/2017)
• CentOS 7.2 (Maya® 2017)

Product Compatibility

Radeon ProRender for Maya v2.1.20.14 is compatible with the following graphics products:

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