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Exporting assets with Arnold Shaders

Hello everyone.

I've recently upgraded to Maya 2018 and will need to update all my assets to work with the Arnold Renderer, so I'm building aistandard shaders for everything.

However, I also need to be able to export those assets to OBJ or FBX formats so that I can share them with other departments and third party contractors. The export plugins don't seem to want to work well, if at all, with the Arnold shaders. I don't remember having this issue with Mental Ray. The only thing I can think to do is to create two versions of my assets, one for rendering and one with Maya Standard shaders for export.

Am I missing something here? Will I need to create two versions of every asset in my library along with building every shading network twice? That hardly seems like the most efficient solution.

Hoping someone here has a good suggestion because this has me a bit stumped.

Sincerely,

Charles