Layering multiple shaders in Maya Mental Ray

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Yet another post about compositing or layering multiple Mental ray shaders in Maya. Sometime back I posted about mix20Layer shader which you can use to layer up to 20 Mental ray shaders but later I found it isn’t working on 64 bit Windows. It will install and be accessible in Maya but as soon as you apply it to an object and hit render, Maya will crash.

So as an alternative, I found another shader named JS_MultiLayers from the same author, Jan Sandstörm and this one is even better as it provides you with 30 layers and Photoshop like blend modes(Add, Screen, Multiply etc.).

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This shader can come handy in many situations like adding separate specular shader  for more control, above SSS shader or creating a Satin shader by layering 2 mia_material, one for the base diffused speculars and one for the shine ( as seen in the image above – a still from my company short film “Hi Honey”).


5 comments

  • JS multilayers isn’t working with 2014, and Jan isn’t supporting it any further. have you found an alternative for it?

    Kevin

  • Hi Guys
    I Installed Mix20 Layer in Maya 2014 today.
    it load to the hypershade and every thing works fine but it don’t render (its not compile issue I think because Maya don’t crash, it just wont render it )
    any Idea?
    thanks

  • This doesn’t work with 2013, so I highly doubt it works with 2014. If I’m wrong please share on how to install it, but following the instructions provided gives the error:

    Plug-in, “JSMultiLayers_maya8_win64” was compiled against too old a version of the Maya API and is thus incompatible with the current Maya version.

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