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This page provides information on the files formats supported by V-Ray Proxy Objects in a .vrmesh file format and working with .vrmesh files though VRay Proxyobjects.

The .vrmesh File Format

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Meshes are exported to a special .vrmesh file format. It contains all geometric information for a mesh – vertices and face topology as well as texture channels, face material IDs, smoothing groups, normals – in short, everything that is needed to render the mesh. In addition, the mesh is preprocessed pre-processed and subdivided into chunks for easier access. The file also contains a simplified version of the mesh used for preview purposes in the viewportsviewport. More information about the .vrmesh file format is available in the V-Ray SDK documentation that comes with the V-Ray for Maya installation.

It is important to realize note that the mesh is in a "ready-to-render" formatstate. No further modifications to the mesh are expected. You can't apply modifiers to the mesh, or animate it in any way other than animating the position/orientation of the proxy object. There is no way to recover the original mesh from a .vrmesh file (this can be done in principle, but is currently not supported). Therefore, if you plan on doing modifications to the mesh, you should keep it in a Maya file (which may be different from the file that gets rendered in the end).

Alembic Supported Features

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The VRayMesh node V-Ray Proxy can also load and render Alembic files (.abc). Alembic layers are also natively supported with V-Ray Proxy objects.

Here is a list of the supported features. 

Geometry types

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  • Polygonal meshes (including subdivision surfaces)
  • Spline curves
  • Particles

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  • Velocity channel - It is always computed for animations with homogeneous topology. Otherwise, it is read from the standard alembic velocity property in units/second. Alternatively, it is in units/frame in a geometry property specified in "velocity_color_set" GeomMeshFile plugin parameter, or in geometry property named “v”, “velocities”, “velocity”, “Velocity”;
  • Material IDs - Provided by per face uin32 property named “.materialids” or by alembic face sets. Each face set name which start with a non-negative integer will assign this integer as material id. Face set names which do not start with an integer receive consecutive material ids;
  • Normals - If “compute_normals” is on, then normals are always computed with the given “smooth_angle” parameter. Otherwise they are read from the alembic default property for normals. If they are not written then geometric normals are used;
  • UV channels - All vector2 float/double properties in ArbGeomParams that start with “uv” are sorted and listed as UV sets. The default UV set comes first with name “uv”;
  • Color channels - All vector3, color3 and color4 properties are represented as three component color channels. All other scalar geometry properties are packed into three component colors.

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Spline Objects

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  • Velocity channel - It is always computed for animations with homogeneous topology. Otherwise, it is read from the standard alembic velocity property in units/second;
  • Hair width - Either written as standard alembic property expressed as diameter or written as radius in “.radius” property;
  • UV channels - All vector2 float/double properties in ArbGeomParams that start with “uv” are sorted and listed as UV sets. The default UV set comes first with name “uv”. UVs can be per vertex of per strand. 

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Fancy Bullets
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  • Velocity channel - It is always computed for animations with homogeneous topology. Otherwise, it is read from the standard alembic velocity property in units/second;
  • Particle width - It is either written as standard alembic property expressed as diameter or written as radius in “.radius” property.


The VRayMesh has V-Ray Proxy has some additional parameters related to Alembic files. See the Alembic Proxy Parameters section of the Old V-Ray Proxy Node page for more details. 

Notes

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  • The resulting .vrmesh files exported from Maya can be rendered outside of Maya - for example, by the standalone version of V-Ray, or V-Ray for 3ds Max and any other application supported by V-Ray.

  • You can convert .ply, .obj, .geo and .bin files to .vrmesh files with the help of the ply2vrmesh converter tool.

  • The V-Ray SDK has methods for reading and writing of .vrmesh files.

  • V-Ray 5.0 for Maya 2018 and above supports instancing of .vrmesh files via the Maya Instancers found in FX menu set > nParticles > Instancer.

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