Hello,
I'm investigating an Ornatrix/Redshift rendering issue on Maya 2024 under Linux, and I believe I have isolated the problem to the Redshift Ornatrix extension.
My current setup is:
- Maya 2024
- Redshift 2026.8.1
- Ornatrix 5.2.0.39614
- Linux
Ornatrix works correctly inside Maya and the hair is visible in the viewport, but Redshift does not render the Ornatrix hair.
I checked the Redshift installation and found that:
- <code dir="ltr">/usr/redshift/redshift4maya/2023/extensions/ornatrix_redshift.so</code> exists
- The equivalent file for Maya 2024 does NOT exist
- <code dir="ltr">/usr/redshift/redshift4maya/2024/extensions/</code> contains <code dir="ltr">xgen_redshift.so</code>, but no <code dir="ltr">ornatrix_redshift.so</code>
I also inspected several historical Redshift Linux installers without installing them:
- Redshift 3.5.17
- Redshift 3.6.04
- Redshift 2025.0.1
- Redshift 2026.8.1
In every case, <code dir="ltr">ornatrix_redshift.so</code> is provided for Maya 2023 and earlier, but not for Maya 2024.
I also tested whether the Maya 2023 extension could be reused with Maya 2024. It cannot: <code dir="ltr">ldd -r</code> shows unresolved symbols explicitly linked against the Maya 2023 ABI (<code dir="ltr">OpenMaya20230000</code>), so the 2023 binary is not compatible with Maya 2024.
For comparison, I checked a Windows workstation where this combination works correctly:
- Maya 2024
- Redshift 2026.8.1
- Ornatrix 5.2.0.39598
That Redshift installation contains:
<code dir="ltr">C:\Program Files\Maxon Redshift 2026\Plugins\Maya\2024\nt-x86-64\extensions\ornatrix_redshift.dll</code>
and Ornatrix hair renders correctly with Redshift.
So the key difference appears to be:
Windows + Maya 2024 <code dir="ltr">ornatrix_redshift.dll</code> is provided and works
Linux + Maya 2024 <code dir="ltr">ornatrix_redshift.so</code> is not provided
Could you please confirm whether a Linux build of <code dir="ltr">ornatrix_redshift.so</code> for Maya 2024 exists?
If it exists but is not included in the standard Redshift installer, is there a supported way to obtain it separately?
And if Maya 2024+ Ornatrix support was intentionally discontinued on Linux, could you please confirm that as well?
