Hi, Im new to Vray, Heres my first rendering, I need HELP!

[mailerik]

Hello vray users,

Here is my first vray rendering. Its a work in progress of an exterior shot of a building. I need help in a several things.

1) GLASS: My glass is coming out dark and i do not know if its my material settings or if i need to add more light inside or vray settings.
My glass material is a standard not a vray, maybe thats it?

2) LIGHTING: It seems to me that my lighting looks unreal and i have been playing with many settings and cant achieve anything better. What am i doing wrong?

3)BRUSHED ALUMINUM: MY brushed aluminum sucks i believe, i think its also killing my rendering.

Any CC is accepted as a positive critiscism, be harsh with me if you need to. I need help. Thank you.

[percydaman]

all I see are red x's. did you perform a preview of your post before posting it?

[mailerik]

Yes i did. I loaded the images through yahoo briefcase. It was showing up a minute ago and now i see the x's also. its probably yahoo that is down.

[percydaman]

try www.imageuploader.net

[mailerik]

Should i use another image uploader? If so which one?

[mailerik]

Ok. All the images should be up now.

[kippu]

Well for starters ...the secondary bounces is less and vray glass material will do the trick

[mailerik]

You mean to put the secondary bounce higher than the first?

When you refer to vray glass are you talking about the egzmatrial?
If you are i installed it but it gives me script errors so it doenst work.

[olivierfR]

Hey!
looks allready nice for a first render on vray !!

maybe, for the glass, try to make it as a complete Vray material...better than standart anyway...

also the alumium, could you show your falloff map ? i should just use a standart gray color in the reflection slot...no falloff or a subtil one...

also, you can increase the light secondary bounce....

good luck !

[mailerik]

ok. i posted the falloff for the brushedaluminum

[olivierfR]

OK !
then i will do the front color much brighter...same for the diffuse...
and check "refect on back side" also try the Ward BRDF...and change the glossiness to something like 0.7

[olivierfR]

OK...now i get it !!!
UNCHECK the fresnel slot of the Vray Material otherwise the Falloff MAp will not work !!

[mailerik]

olivier,
thanks for the comments on the Aluminum brush. I made the changes now im rendering to see the difference. So far the changes look good.
thanks again.

[mailerik]

Any suggestions on the glass or lighting?

[olivierfR]