Maya Shaders - Arnold for Maya

Supported Shaders

Low-hanging fruit is marked with bold.

More complicated shaders without array inputs or multi-outputs have been marked with italics.

Note that we don't provide 1:1 matching with Maya shaders for procedural textures using noise functions, since Maya's noise functions use specific random tables.

Surface


Anisotropic	yes
Blinn	yes (basic translation to Standard Surface shader)
Phong	yes (basic translation to Standard Surface shader)
Layered Shader	yes (limited to 16 entries)
Ocean Shader	no
Ramp Shader	no
Use Background	no
Lambert	yes
Surface Shader	yes

2D Textures


name	completed	array inputs	multi-outputs
Bulge	yes	no	no
Checker	yes	no	no
Cloth	yes	no	no
File	yes	no	no
Fluid 2D	yes	yes (color, controlPoints, ...)	yes (outUV, outGrid)
Fractal	yes	no	no
Grid	yes	no	no
Mountain	yes	yes	yes
Noise	yes	no	no
Ramp	yes (limited to 16 entries)	yes	no
Water	yes	yes	yes
Layered Texture	yes (limited to 16 entries)	yes (inputs)	no

3D Textures


name	completed	array inputs	multi-outputs
Brownian	yes	no	no
Cloud	yes	no	no
Crater	yes	yes	yes
Fluid 3D	no	yes (color, controlPoints, ...)	yes (outUV, outGrid)
Granite	yes	yes	yes
Leather	yes	yes	yes
Marble	yes	no	no
Rock	yes	yes	yes
Snow	yes	no	no
Solid Fractal	yes	no	no
Stucco	yes	no	no
Volume Noise	yes	no	no
Wood	no	no	no

Env Textures


name	completed	array inputs	multi-outputs
Env Sphere	yes	no	no

General Utilities


name	completed	array inputs	multi-outputs
Array Mapper	no	no	?
Bump2d	yes	no	no
Bump3d	no	no	no
Condition	yes	no	no
Distance Between	no	no	no
Height Field	no	yes	?
Light Info	no	no	yes (pointCamera, lightPosition, lightDirection)
MultiplyDivide	yes	no	no
Place2d	yes (only outUV supported)	no	yes
Place3d	yes	no	no?
PlusMinusAverage	yes	yes (input1D, input2D, input3D)	yes (output1D, output2D, output3D)
Projection	yes	no	no
Reverse	yes	no	no
SamplerInfo	no	no	yes (pointCamera, pointObj, pointWorld, normalCamera, ...)
SetRange	yes	no	no
Stencil	no	no	no
Uv Chooser	no	no	yes
Vector Product	no	no	no

Color Utilities


name	completed	array inputs	multi-outputs
Blend	yes	no	no
Clamp	yes	no	no
Contrast	yes	no	no
GammaCorrect	yes	no	no
Hsv To Rgb	yes	no	no
Luminance	yes	no	no
Remap Color	yes (not auto-translated)	yes	no
Remap Hsv	yes (but no translator?)	yes	no
Remap Value	yes	yes	yes (outValue, outColor)
Rgb To Hsv	yes	no	no
Smear	no	?	?
Surface Luminance	no	no	no

Workarounds

Below are examples of workarounds when using some of the Maya shader nodes.

Sampler Info Node

The sampler info facing ratio does not work when connected to the UV co-ordinates of a ramp:

A workaround is to delete the 2d placement node that is connected to the ramp.