Iray is a computer graphics rendering software that is commonly used for creating high-quality images and animations. It is designed to take advantage of modern GPUs, allowing for fast and efficient rendering of complex scenes. Maya is a popular 3D modeling and animation software widely used in the entertainment industry. Iray is a popular rendering plugin for Maya, allowing users to take advantage of its advanced rendering capabilities within the Maya workflow. In this blog, iRender will discuss some key features of Iray for Maya.

NVIDIA Iray is the first GPU-accelerated solution for physics-based, photo-realistic rendering worldwide. Combined with the parallel processing power of the latest NVIDIA video processors, Iray achieves interactivity with extremely fast reactions and significantly accelerates the iterations required to create perfect scenes. Iray provides materials and lighting that are physically based. It is a high-performance rendering approach for global illumination that creates visuals by modeling the actual behavior of light’s interaction with volumes and surfaces. Pictures are gradually sharpened to offer complete worldwide lighting. 

Autodesk Maya is professional 3D software for creating realistic characters and blockbuster-worthy effects. Maya includes features for modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering, as well as tools for working with advanced 3D graphics. 

Easy of use

We designed Iray for Maya to be user-friendly so you don’t have to waste time learning complicated commands and doing repetitive tasks. This is an easy-to-use rendering solution that produces excellent results in a matter of minutes, regardless of your experience with Maya or familiarity with 3D modeling and animation. Iray for Maya provides you with high-quality output in a user-friendly interface, with customizable materials, support for Maya’s textures and utility nodes, real-world lighting features, and scalable GPU processes.

Physically-Based Materials

Because Iray for Maya features physically-based materials, whatever material you select for your creations will seem as it would in the actual world. You will also be able to duplicate any surface’s behavior as follows:

• Reflections
• Refractions
• Texture
• Surface emission
• Absorption properties.

No matter how complex your project is, using physically-based materials will ensure that your render looks stunning and realistic without sacrificing material quality.

Image-based lighting

With Image-Based Lighting (IBL) in Iray for Maya, you can effortlessly create the perfect lighting setting for any picture or animation. With IBL, you may use HDRI environments to control the lighting in your scene by just pressing a button that modifies the exposure and lighting angles.

The light burst function in Iray for Maya helps you create a more realistic image when you are using an HDRI with a limited dynamic range, particularly when the sun is covered.

Light path expressions

Light path expressions (LPE) in Iray for Maya make it simple to adjust the artistic style or the amount of light in your render. The purpose of light path expressions is to produce the desired style or highlight particular parts of the scene or design in post-production. They are separately generated in parallel with your main render. 

AI Denoiser

Iray for Maya’s AI-enabled denoiser can help you render images more quickly. With this special Iray function, you may achieve interactive photo-realistic rendering and faster render times and final frames without increasing the processing power of your GPU. You will experience a smoother rendering with this innovative technique of denoising, which enables you to modify and refine your design as needed.

iRender is a suitable and effective service for Iray GPU rendering. We provide high-performance servers for GPU-based engine rendering through the Remote Desktop application. In particular, we have dedicated servers for software that primarily focuses on multiple GPUs compatibility and performance such as Nvidia Iray.

We are releasing new servers for iRender’s users, which have powerful processing capabilities of AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX @ 3.90GHz- 4.2GHz and AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO 5975WX @ 3.6 – 4.5GHz. Besides, they have multi-GPUs: 2/ 4/ 6/ 8 RTX 4090 24GB VRAM to boost performance in the rendering process. 

It takes easy steps to start and you will take full control of remote servers at iRender. Using the remote server is no different than using any other computer you have had. We are proud of the brilliant support team. They can solve any issue anytime you need, and do not wait for too long. 

Let’s see how our 2 RTX 3090 performs when rendering with Iray scene:

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Daz Studio is a computer graphics program for creating highly configurable 3D scenes, from scratch or from pre-imported models. It’s a very famous tool for 3D artists and creators, with robust and vast variety support of different tools and assets (such as posing, wardrobe, hairstyle, background, etc.). With its easy-to-use workflow and free subscription, Daz Studio is preferred by many. The rendering tool often come free with Daz is iRay by Nvidia.

In this article, iRender guides you on the system requirements and the best cloud rendering service for Daz Studio and iRay.

In this section, we will introduce and suggest a system requirement for Daz Studio 4.21:

• • • • Operating system: 64-bit operating system
      • Processor: Intel Xeon/Core 2 Duo or Quad /Core i7 or AMD Opteron/Phenom processor
      • Memory: 2 GB RAM min (3GB+ RAM recommended)
      • Disk space: 1GB free hard drive space for installation
      • Graphics card: Nvidia RTX 2060 or above

However, these hardware are outdated and we will need to deep dive into what is recommended for Daz and iRay.

• • • • Processor: this is not an important factor when you work with Daz Studio and iRay. However, of course you will need an strong enough processor to handle the GPU.
      • Memory: minimum RAM should be 32GB. Or you can base on the VRAM of your GPU to decide how many RAM you will need. According to Daz users experience, RAM should be 3x more than VRAM to make sure your scene will not run out of system memory.
      • Disk space: there’s no recommended space, but you will need large hard drives because Daz’s library is often large.
      • Graphics card: Nvidia RTX 2060 or above is okay for a good start.

iRender provide to you high performance and configurable server system for 3D rendering, AI Training, VR & AR, simulation, etc. We believe that design and creative activities are private and personal that only you artists will know what you want with your animation. That’s the reason why we provide remote servers so that you can install any software you need, and do whatever you like with your project.

You will only need to install your software for the first time, and next time you connect to the computer everything is ready for use.

Because Daz studio and iRay can utilize the power of GPU rendering, we have established some of the fastest server packages with RTX4090 and RTX3090.

One of the best cloud rendering service for Daz Studio

Regarding the most important factor: Graphics card (GPU). Because Daz and iRay recommends powerful cards (especially Nvidia one), we will check the render times of famous GeForce GPUs like RTX 3090 and RTX 4090. All of them render the RayDAnt_DS_Iray_Benchmark_2019A_r4.duf from Daz3d.com’s forum.

The first benchmark is Daz 3D:

In this table of render times for Daz, RTX 4090 is the fastest card, only takes 1 minutes and 4.23 seconds to render the file. When you stack more GPU, the render time will reduce to 25.81 seconds. However, it’s not linear, as 3 x RTX4090 is only 2.5 times faster than 1 x RTX4090.

RTX 3090 renders the scene in 2 minutes 7.21 seconds, about two time slower than one RTX 4090. So it actually follows the trend of Nvidia of making new generation doubles the performance of old generation.

The second benchmark is iRay, same scene:

With iRay, RTX 4090 still shows its superior, with render time is 62.449 seconds. RTX 3090 render time is, once again, about 2 times slower than one RTX 4090.

However, when we see iRay performance on multiple RTX 4090s, the speed is better than Daz test. Here 3x RTX 4090s is about 2.9 times faster than one RTX 4090, so it’s kinda linear when it’s come to speed.

So in general, we can see that RTX 4090 is about 2 times faster than RTX 3090. Multiple RTX 4090s is faster than single RTX 4090, but it’s not a perfectly linear reduction in render time.

iRender provide you RTX 4090 and RTX 3090 server, both of the graphics cards have 24 GB VRAM. The RAM is 256GB, about 10.7 times more than VRAM, so you will not have to worry about the case of running out of RAM when rendering your scene. Storage is NVMe SSD with 2TB for your library content. Processor is an AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor. With those configs, you can be assured that your scene will load faster, more stable when running with multiple applications.

At iRender, we provide you more support than just those config.

iRender offers a powerful and free file transfer tool: iRender drive for macOS and Linux user. With fast file transfer speed, large data capacity, and completely free. You can transfer all the necessary data into our iRender drive tool at any time without connecting to the server. The data will be automatically synchronized in the Z drive inside the server, ready for you to use.

The tool is also integrated into iRender GPU app, an all in one application where you can free your workflow from accessing iRender website, and just have to work on the iRender GPU app.

Beside hourly rental, you can always save from 10% to 20% with our Fixed Rental feature. For those who’s in need of a server for more than a day, or have extremely large projects, we advise to choose a daily/ weekly/monthly rental package. The discount is attractive (up to 10% for daily packages, 20% on weekly and monthly packages), and you don’t have to worry about over-charging if you forget to shutdown the server.

With us, it does not matter where you are present – as long as you are connected to the internet, you can access and enjoy the 24/7 rendering services that we provide, and if you meet any issue, our real human 24/7 support team is always ready to support you.

When you use iRender, you can free your computer during the hardest and most arduous part – rendering. That is also the reason that Render Farm service is becoming more and more popular and essential. However, as far as we know, iRender is proud to be one of the very few rendering service that support powerful RTX4090 and RTX3090 for Daz Studio and iRay with relatively reasonable price.

With the above advantages and the machine configuration package that iRender has just released, we believe that Daz Studio and iRay users will have the most comfortable, quickest, and most effective rendering time.

Register an account today to experience our service. Or contact us via WhatsApp: (+84) 916806116 for advice and support.

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If you’re a Maya user looking for a plugin renderer that you can use straight out of the box then Iray GPU rendering is for you.

Using Iray for Maya will simplify and enhance your design experience; use it to create stunning materials for stills and animations, at all stages of the design process with material nodes that are directly integrated into Maya.

As Iray for Maya uses NVIDIA’s Iray technology, it gives you access to physically-based materials, lighting, and environments and can be easily scaled across multi-GPU workflows. And its ease of use means that whether you’re an experienced Maya user, or you’re just starting out on your CGI design journey, you’ll be able to create astonishing rendering results within minutes.

With iRender team, we are going to visit Iray GPU rendering for Maya in this blog.

NVIDIA Iray is the first GPU-accelerated solution for physics-based, photo-realistic rendering worldwide. Combined with the parallel processing power of the latest NVIDIA video processors, Iray achieves interactivity with extremely fast reactions and significantly accelerates the iterations required to create perfect scenes.

On the other hand, Autodesk Maya 3D animation software offers a comprehensive creative feature set for 3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, rendering, and compositing on a highly extensible production platform.

The performance of a renderer such as Iray is relatively independent of how complex the scene geometry is. The complexity of light paths is more important: A candle in a labyrinth, or light rays diverging from a narrow window, will take longer to yield a good-quality rendering than light shining through a broad skylight or picture windows. As with other renderers, performance is also proportional to the resolution of the rendered image. The complexity of materials in the scene also affects performance: The more textures, blending, and noise a material has, the longer it takes to calculate the results.

In addition, Iray is physically based and simulates light paths as close as possible to reality. This is the reason why you have to act in specific situations different than in other renderers like a mental ray. To give an example: It is not possible to turn off shadows for specific geometry.

Thought, Iray Interactive is an interactive raytracing render mode that uses faster yet less accurate rendering algorithms than Iray Photoreal. Iray Interactive targets a look that is consistent with the physically-based result of Iray Photoreal, yet it is optimized for interactive scene manipulations. Iray Interactive leverages NVIDIA CUDA-capable GPUs. It is ideal where ray-tracing effects, such as reflections and refraction, are desired and limited photorealism is acceptable

• Iray for Maya is a production-ready physical based renderer

Iray for Maya provides a state-of-the-art light simulation for any kind of CGI production. You can get photorealistic rendering results with a minimum of tweaking.

• Iray for Maya  is well integrated with Maya and easy to use

Besides, as an experienced Maya user you are able to use Iray for Maya out of the box. It is easy to understand and straightforward to use.

• Iray for Maya gives you no limitation pushing the limits of lighting and material design

Even if Iray for Maya is easy to use you don’t lose the flexibility you need in a professional production environment. This is possible by using the integrated IrayForMaya material nodes as well as programming your own material description using MDL (Material Definition Language).

• Iray for Maya takes advantage of the latest technology without losing downstream compatibility

The last, Iray for Maya will usually run on your Maya workstation, doesn’t matter if you have an Nvidia graphics card installed or not. Utilizing the advantage of GPU support only requires one or more NVIDIA video cards with at least 2 GB of video memory. Taking advantage of GPU accelerated rendering enables you to scale the render performance nearly linearly. To find out more about the required hardware please refer to the Nvidia-webpage.

iRender is an appropriate and effective service for Iray GPU rendering. We provide high-performance servers for GPU-based engine rendering through the Remote Desktop application. In particular, we have dedicated servers for software that primarily focuses on multiple GPUs compatibility and performance such as Nvidia Iray.

We are releasing new servers for iRender’s users, which have powerful processing capabilities of AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX @ 3.90GHz. Besides, they have multi-GPUs: 2/ 4/ 6/ 8 RTX 3090 24GB VRAM to boost performance in the rendering process. 

It takes easy steps to start and you will take full control of remote servers at iRender. Using the remote server is no different than using any other computer you have had. We are proud of the brilliant support team. They can solve any issue anytime you need, and do not wait for too long. 

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