topic Re: Odd (good, lol) viewport behaviour in Maya Forum

Odd (good, lol) viewport behaviour

brurpo — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 02:56:25 GMT

So, I've been having some problems with my personal pc, and not my work workstation.

My workstation has a m5000, and everything seems ok (besides that odd behavior of cubemaps in shaderfx forum link).

I was having similar problems at my personal PC (RTX 2080 TI) but with the default arnold shader and not just shaderfx.

Then I updated to windows 1809 and the latest nvidia drivers for it and.....

Since when do we have proper roughness mapping and area light reflections in maya?? This is not documented and couldnt find this elsewhere, nor reproduce in any workstation. Roughness map does not work, and area light specular are just like a point light in the center of it.

Not that I am complaining, but whats going on?

Re: Odd (good, lol) viewport behaviour

sean.heasley — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:50:25 GMT

Hi @brurpo

This might be possible due to you having a RTX 2080ti.

I know that our developers have a few of them and have been working with them for 2019 but I wasn't sure if there were any changes with 2018 when using them.

This would explain why its not in the documentation as this may be getting updated when 2019 is released. That said I'm not 100% sure if this is the case and I would need to reach out to development about this because I haven't personally had any time to look into the new rtx cards and how they work with Maya.

Re: Odd (good, lol) viewport behaviour

Christoph_Schaedl — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:03:14 GMT

Im confused. The image you posted does show roughness and arealight reflections. Thats part of the latest Arnold update not maya.

Re: Odd (good, lol) viewport behaviour

brurpo — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:50:07 GMT

I have the latest arnold version in all workstations, but they do not behave like this.

Re: Odd (good, lol) viewport behaviour

brurpo — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:58:15 GMT

Thanks as always Sean!

Re: Odd (good, lol) viewport behaviour

sean.heasley — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:28:43 GMT

Hi @brurpo

No problem!

If you aren't seeing it on the other machines you may need to make sure the GPU drivers are up to date.