Material Support
RenderMan for Maya translates the majority of Maya Materials, including complex material hierarchies, bumps, and displacements. Using Maya Materials with RenderMan For Maya is as simple as creating Maya Materials for use with the Maya renderer. RenderMan for Maya supports the majority of Maya Materials, and a full list of supported Materials can be found here.
RenderMan converts Maya Materials into high fidelity RenderMan shaders, which take advantage of RenderMan's high quality shading algorithms with can help prevent artifacts such as temporal aliasing and strobing, crucial when rendering sequences of images for animation.
