What is Supported

What is Supported?
Known Limitations

What is Supported?

RenderMan for Maya translates the majority of Maya elements including, but hardly limited to:

CAMERAS

    Cameras   (No stereographic rendering)
    ImagePlane
GEOMETRY

    NURBS (True curved surfaces. No tessellation issues)

    Polygons

    Hierarchical Subdivision Surfaces (True curved surfaces. No tessellation issues)

PARTICLES

    Streak

    Multistreak

    Point
    Multipoint
    Sphere
    Cloud

    Sprite
    Blobby Surface

    Particle Instancing

LIGHTS

    Ambient
    Directional
    Point
    Spot
    Area
    Volume
MAYA MATERIALS

    SurfaceShader
    VolumeShader
    DisplacementShader
    Material nodes unsupported by RenderMan for Maya are listed here.
MAYA UNLIMITED

    Fur (Support for majority of attributes, including keyframe animation & dynamics)

    Hair (Requires Maya Unlimited 6.5 or higher)

    Cloth
    Paint Effects (Partial implementation; Requires Maya 6.5 or higher)

Known Limitations

Unsupported Maya Features

GLOW - Maya glow (and other post-process effects) are not supported.

IPR -Maya's interactive renderer is not supported by RenderMan for Maya.
FLUID EFFECTS -Not supported at this time.

Unsupported Maya Materials

Surface Materials
    Ocean Shader
    Shading Map
Volumetric Materials
    Env Fog
    Fluid Shape
    Volume Shader

2D Textures
    Fluid Texture 2D
    Movie
    Ocean
    PSD File
    Water
3D Textures
    Fluid Texture 3D
Env Textures
    Env Cube
    Env Sky
General Utilities
    Stencil
    Distance Between
    (tbd)
Color Utilities
    (tbd)
Switch Utilities
    baseShadingSwitch
        double

Particle Utilities
    particleColorMapper
    IncandMapper
    TranspMapper
    AgeMapper
    (tbd)
Partially Supported Materials

    particleCloud (work-in-progress)
    cloud (Issues with softedges)
    leather (Close match)
    granite (Close match)
    light fog (Close match, extra sampling features)
    particleSampler (Partial Implementation)
    Env Ball (support for HDR environment probes, eyespace and projection geometry are broken)

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