This page provides a table of features supported by Chaos Cloud rendering in Maya.
Overview
These features are supported by Chaos Cloud in Maya.
Supported Features
Geometry
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Triangle meshes |  |
| V-Ray Proxy | |
| Alembic via proxy | |
| NURBS | |
Subdivisions | |
| Displacement | |
| V-Ray Fur | |
| Maya Hair | |
| XGen | |
| Infinite plane | |
| Particles | (All types except tube, cloud, and numeric. Type "blobby surface" renders as spheres.) |
| MASH | |
| VRayClipper | |
Lights
Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Textured lights | |
V-Ray Lights | |
| Standard Lights | |
| Photometric Lights | |
| Image-based lighting | |
| Light and shadow linking | |
Materials
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| VRayAlSurface | |
| VRayBlendMtl | |
| VRayCarPaint | |
| VRayCarPaint2 | |
| VRayLightMtl | |
| VRayMtl | |
VRay2SidedMtl | |
VRayMtlWrapper | |
| VRayFastSSS2 | |
| VRayFlakesMtl | |
| VRayFlakes2Mtl | |
| VRayHairNextMtl | |
| VRayGLSLMtl | |
| VRayHairMtl | |
| VRayBumpMtl | |
VRayVRmatMtl | |
VRayOSLMtl | |
| VRayScannedMtl | |
| VRayStochasticFlakesMtl | |
| VRaySwitchMtl | |
| VRayToonMtl | |
| VRayMtlRender Stats | |
| VRay Mesh Material | |
| VRayPointParticleMtl | |
| Maya Ramp Shader | |
Textures
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Bitmap | |
Checker | |
| Bulge |
|
| Cloth | |
| Fractal | |
| Grid | |
| Mountain |
|
| Wood | |
| Sampler Info | |
| Ramp | |
| Substance |
|
| Noise | |
| Granite |
|
| Leather | |
| LookDevKit nodes |
|
| VRayFresnel | |
| Vertex Color | |
| VRaySky | |
| VRayDirt | |
| VRayFalloff | |
| VRayTemperature | |
| VRayEdges | |
| VRayDistanceTex |
|
| VRayGLSL | |
| VRayPTex | |
| VRayHairSampler | |
| VRayFurSampler | |
| VRaySoftBox | |
| VRayOSLTex | |
| VRayParticleTex | |
| VRayRaySwitch | |
| VRayTriplanarTex | |
| VRayUserColor | |
| VRayUserScalar | |
| VRayCurvature | |
| VRayLayeredTex | |
| VRayInverseExposure | |
| VRayUVWRandomizer | |
Maya Utility Nodes
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| contrast |
|
| clamp | |
| gammaCorrect | |
| luminance | |
| ramp [Texture] | |
| remapColor | |
| remapHsv | |
| remapValue | |
| blendColors | |
| samplerInfo | |
| multiplyDivide | |
| plusMinusAverage | |
| reverse | |
surfaceLuminance | |
| hsvToRgb | |
| choice | |
samplerInfo
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Ray Direction |
|
| Normal Camera | |
| Pixel Center | |
| Point Camera | |
| Point Obj | |
| Point World | |
| Tangent UCamera | |
| Tangent VCamera | |
| UV Coord | |
multiplyDivide
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| No operation |
|
| Multiply | |
| Divide | |
| Power | |
plusMinusAverage
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Input 1D |
|
| Input 2D | |
| Input 3D | |
Environment
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Spherical Mapping | |
| Mirror ball mapping | |
| Angular mapping | |
| Toon shading | |
| VRaySimpleFog | |
| VRayScatterFog | |
| VRayEnvironmentFog | |
| VRayAerialPerspective | |
Global Illumination Methods
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
Brute Force | |
| Light Cache |
|
Cameras
Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Motion blur (transformation and deformation) |
|
| Camera motion blur |
|
| Camera DoF | |
| VRayPhysicalCamera | |
| Stereoscopic | |
| Dome Camera | |
Render Elements
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Preset: Back to Beauty | |
| Atmospheric Effects | |
| Background |
|
| Bump Normals | |
| Caustics | |
| Coat Specular | |
| Coat Filter | |
| Coat Glossiness | |
| Coat Reflection |
|
| Coverage |
|
| Cryptomatte |
|
| DR Bucket | |
| Denoiser | |
| Diffuse | |
| Extra Tex | |
| GI | |
| LightMix | |
Light Select | |
| Lighting | |
| Lightning Analysis | |
| Material ID | |
| Material Select | |
| Matte Shadow | |
| Metalness | |
| Multi Matte | |
| Multi Matte ID | |
| Noise Level | |
| Normals | |
| Object ID | |
| Object Select | |
| Raw Coat Filter | |
| Raw Coat Reflection | |
| Raw Diffuse Filter | |
| Raw GI | |
| Raw Light | |
| Raw Reflection | |
| Raw Reflection Filter | |
| Raw Refraction | |
| Raw Refraction Filter | |
| Raw Shadow | |
| Raw Sheen Filter | |
| Raw Sheen Reflection | |
| Raw Total Light | |
| Reflect IOR | |
| Reflection | |
| Reflection Filter | |
| Reflection Glossiness | |
| Reflection Highlight Glossiness | |
| Refraction | |
| Refraction Filter | |
| Refraction glossiness | |
| Render ID | |
| SSS | |
| Sample Rate | |
| Sampler Info | |
| Self Illumination | |
| Shadow | |
| Sheen Specular | |
| Sheen Filter | |
| Sheen Glossiness | |
| Sheen Reflection | |
| Specular | |
| Toon | |
| Toon Lighting | |
| Toon Specular | |
| Total Light | |
| Unclamped Color | |
| Velocity | |
| Z Depth | |
| VRScansPaintMask | |
| VRScansZoneMask | |
Overrides - Camera
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Override FOV | |
| Depth of Field | |
| Motion blur | |
Overrides - Geometry
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Displacement | |
| Subdivision | |
| Viewport subdivision | |
| Hair/PaintFX/Fur | |
| Proxy Objects | |
| Particles | |
| Plugin Geometry | |
| Hidden geometry | |
Overrides - Lighting
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Lights | |
| Hidden lights | |
| Shadows | |
| Ignore shadow and light linking | |
| Disable self-illumination | |
| Probabilistic lights | |
Overrides - Materials
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Reflection / Refraction | |
| Glossy effects | |
SSS | |
| Global max depth | |
| Max Transparency levels | |
| Transparency cutoff | |
| Allow negative shader colors | |
Overrides - Textures
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Maps | |
| Filter maps | |
| Uninverted normal bump | |
Overrides - Rendering
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Don't render final image1 | Partial |
| Secondary ray bias | |
| Max ray intensity | |
Overrides - Environment
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Environment override | |
Overrides - Volumetrics
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| Environment volume | |
| Probabilistic volumetrics | |
Plug-ins
| Feature | Chaos Cloud |
| Ornatrix | |
| VRayScatter | |
Other
Feature | Chaos Cloud |
|---|---|
| VRayLensEffects (VFB) |
|
| VRayVolumeGrid | |
| Antialiasing | |
| Color Mapping | |
| VFB | |
| Render Mask | |
| VRayMetaballs | |
| UDIM/UVtile texture tags | |
| Anisotropy | |
| UVWProjections | |
| Bitmap/Geometry cache | |
| VRay Renderable Curves set | |
| V-Ray custom user attributes | |
Matte objects | |
Footnotes
1 – Don't render final image option does work as an override in Chaos Cloud, but there is no way to obtain the GI files generated by it after the render finishes.