GoZ with Maya 2017 Fix / Problem

beefaroni

You need Mental Ray for Maya installed! For some reason this is not listed on Pixologics website. A co-worker figured this out and it hasn't been a problem since.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-mental-ray-products.html


From Pixologic.

GoZ is not compatible with Maya 2017 at this time as there are major changes to Maya's import/export architecture that will require a significant update to GoZ in order to handle it.  We have no ETA at this time.

No idea why they wrote this. We have all been using GoZ fine with 2017 after installing Mental Ray.

Hope this helps for anyone who stumbles across.

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cromadbomber

Well this is weird. I have been avoiding 2017 release because of this. Thanks for info.

Elithenia

ohhh Thank you for posting this!
I was wondering why my GoZ had stopped working since installing 2017. Figured I had missed something. 
Is it just a case of installing mentalray for maya then?

FildoSaggins

Must have something to do with the creation of materials when coming back to Maya, and GoZ needs MR for some reason to do so. I have noticed that going to ZBrush still works but not being able to send back to Maya has been annoying. Thanks for the tip! Looks like I'll be installing Mental Delay for the time being.

beefaroni

Yep, you just need to install Mental Ray for Maya 2017.

If anyone has a contact at Pixologic it would be great to see them update their GoZ for Maya 2017 page with this fix!

Sunray

Screw GoZ try styx it's only 5 dollar It's worth every damn cent also the developer responds really fast if you run into any problems.

cromadbomber

Can Styx carry creasing into Zbrush?

beefaroni

Sunray said:

Screw GoZ try styx it's only 5 dollar It's worth every damn cent also the developer responds really fast if you run into any problems.

Not a very helpful addition to this thread.

Unfortunately some of us need the creasing support that GoZ offers. If you saw I actually posted above you in the Styx thread. If Styx supported creasing that would be fantastic.