5 000 000 000 000 polygons

[voltron7]

A few tries

Well, here are a few quick tests from me...
Sorry about the low quality, i was trying out the Vray environment fog, too...

This tool is amazing, just wish I could get it to work with DR!
RAM was peaking near 1 GB (rendered at 900 pixels)







maybe it's my setup, but the collision does not seem to behave as it does in their manual...

[peterguthrie]

very cool images voltron7, esp like the sun through the fog ones

i didnt think the collision was working either, but bear in mind it only shows up in the render, not in the viewport. Also, as I found, check what units your proxies are in. I was scaling up some as they were in cm not mm, so that affected the collision distance.

[voltron7]

Thanks Peter, that's exactly what I noticed with the collisions, too. On the R&D forum, the next update is supposed to have a new collision...

[Da_elf]

what was your fog settings in the 1st and second one?

[voltron7]

Fog

@ Da_elf,

For the first one, I think it was

-color was default

-emission was 255, 255, 255

-about 1700' distance

-about 500' height (however, I was constantly changing views and moving both terrain and cameras in the Z direction by hundreds of feet at a time, don't ask why )

-scatter gi was NOT checked
-use all lights was NOT checked

-added the vraysun as a fog node

Note: This was first time trying fog, so these settings might be junk!
EDIT: Also, Per Vray Help index, in the Vray system rollout, I checked "optimized atmospheric evaluation." I tried it both ways and didn't really notice a humanly significant difference

[voltron7]

Thanks guys.
Realized I should have stated that only the meters are 3D. Probably obvious enough, but no intent to mislead.

b

Still looks great

[simmsimaging]

Those tests look great Voltron7. Nice mood.

Not sure what your problems have been with DR, but that is working okay for me... I have had no issues with DR since I got my license up and running.

b

[voltron7]

Thanks simmsimaging,

This is what happens when i try DR...


The ground has a map on it that is located in the same directory as the proxies, etc. (actually, all resources for the scene) and this directory is on the render node. I also left the fog active, and you can see, that DR is accessing everything but the vrayscatter....

I'm fairly certain it's got to do with the scatter license, I guess, because DR is working fine in other scenes that don't have any scatter in them.

[simmsimaging]

I suppose it's too obvious, but are you sure you installed the node license version of Vray scatter on your nodes? First time out I installed the wrong one and it did not work either so I know it's (sort of) easy to do. Once I installed the slave version I had no trouble at all.

b

[voltron7]

I suppose it's too obvious, but are you sure you installed the node license version of Vray scatter on your nodes? First time out I installed the wrong one and it did not work either so I know it's (sort of) easy to do. Once I installed the slave version I had no trouble at all.

b

Good idea, well, this is the one I installed "VRayScatterSetup_SP3_RS64x.exe" on the render node/slave. Unless I misread the install instructions (possible I guess) , I did it right...

[simmsimaging]

Sounds like you did it right. Worth a shot I guess
b

[voltron7]

Fixed

Hey, it's working!
I
-deleted the plugin from slave
-merged objects into new scene
-created new (fresh) resource directory on slave
-restarted slave computer
-re-installed slave render node of vrayscatter

now it's working with DR...
thanks for the suggestions,
JR

[simmsimaging]

Cool - glad it worked.
b

[voltron7]

must have been some user error along the way

[drew_almighty]

License Issue

Anyone else having trouble running the plugin because of rights issues? It seems that because I don't have admin rights I am getting an error and can't run scatter. But if I log in as an admin I can run it fine. Is there no way to run this plugin without admin rights?