This project is a simple plugin to render Autodesk Maya scene in the render view. It is based on the book RaytracingInOneWeekend modified to work with meshes. This plugin includes 3 materials:

• Custom lambert
• Custom metal
• Custom dielectric

You can also find in the folder melScript a little script that will generate the scene shown in the above picture.

CustomMayaRenderer uses the following libraries:

• glm: it is a math library use for vector computation. If it is not install with vcpkg, you will have to add the path to the include directory in the project settings.
• MayaDevKit: it is the kit containing everything usefull for maya plugins. The project has been tested with the 2018 version.

To make the project compile, you have to create this two environment variables:

• MAYA_DEV_KIT_PATH: path to the MayaDevKit
• MAYA_PYTHON_PATH: path to the python module of maya. Usually in MAYA_PATH/Python/Lib/site-packages

Once done, the plugin should compile and a folder sandbox have been created at the root of the project. Specify the location of this folder in the MAYA_MODULE_PATH so Maya can find it and it will appear inside of Maya plugins list.