"Lele's VRay Tools" Script Pack:Realtime Sky Added

[^Lele^]

From now on, this one will be the main thread for the script pack.
Grab it from here: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/leles-vray-tools
Remember to cast your vote if you like it, my ego does need the pampering, thankyou ever so much.

It contains:
Anything to Physcam
VRay Light Monkey (freshly added as macroscript)
Matrix Exposimeter
PPT/LC Calculator
Physcam Auto-Focus
Physcam Parameters Cloner
Physcam Presets Deck
VRay Stuff Collector (Updated to collect IES profiles as well)
VRay Render-time Infos (Updated not to throw up an error if a skylight is present, and to let you know if any material has reflection/refraction interpolation active, and with which min/max settings)
Realtime Sky (Allows for realtime updates of the VRay Sky map in the viewport background. Any change to sun position or parameters will be reflected in viewport in realtime)

Install Instructions:
Unpack the lot (with subfolders) into a temporary folder of your choice.
Open Max (8, 9 32bit, 9 64bit), then from the menus do "Maxscript->Run Script" and point to the "main_installer.ms" file (do NOT drag and drop or run individual scripts.).
Choose from the interface what you want to install (make use of the "?" buttons by the side of each script name), and press the install button.
Follow the on-screen infos.

Licensing:
The pack is free for personal, and non-commercial use.
If you use it in a business environment, do support the developer (ME!) through a small donation via Paypal: my time is as precious as yours.

Bugs, feedback and new features:
Report bugs through the email my profile sports.
Oftentimes, a stripped down scene is very helpful in reproducing and squashing the bugs.
Use the same email to request new features, knowing that timing and availability of both bug corrections and new features may and will vary greatly, compatibly with my daily engagements.
I am every hungry for Feedback.
PLEASE let me know if the script doesn't start, throws up exceptions and so on.
Often it's MY fault, but it's somewhat hard for me to check it on my own during developement: i NEED your feedback.
Last but not least, did i mention i'd love for you people to get in touch with some feedback?

For now, enjoy.

[joconnell]

Fair play to you lele - some great stuff in there to make life a good bit easier

[ene.xis]

thanx man!
great script-pack! a real life safer on an everyday basis
u know that!

[Candelero]

easy to find !


Best regards,
nikki Candelero

[^Lele^]

Ooooh, I'm humbled, Nikki!

Thanks a lot!

p.s.: un-stick the old thread, if at all possible...

[meanadam]

Perfect. Where is the paypal donate button?

[^Lele^]

You can use the email shown in my profile =)

[DaForce]

Yeah, if I can just push the donation point further.

These tools are extremely helpful and I imagine alot of you use them, especially in a commercial environment.
So send the lad some greenbacks, the tools are well worth it, let alone the continued improvments and fantastic support

Great work Lele

[priad]

You are the best

[nvanherpt]

thanks for fixing the Render-time Infos Lele

tbh, what i'd find most useful is info telling me whether i checked the "Don't render final image" box, and whether the LC and Imap's are set to save, and their modes. those are the main reasons i end up cancelling important renders to double check settings.

nik

[^Lele^]

Rofl, Nik, and those are of course left out.
Will update Very soon.

Lele

[^Lele^]

Updated the pack to include those GI options.
Redownload and reinstall.

[nvanherpt]

Sweet, now we can give it a proper test.

Cheers.

[pixelstudio]

Amazing work LeLe! Very nice.

i was wondering how you have thought about the vraysky. if i use this in a scene and autoexpose. the sky colors is wrong ( to dark) thought i have read somewhere that's a bug of RC3, but i'm not sure. any suggestions on that front ?

Again thanks for you hard work!

[^Lele^]

I don't quite understand what you mean by this post, pixelstudio.
If you refer to the matrix exposimeter, all it does it to try and set the scene colours to 1.0 float (average, as per the weighting and brightness ranges chosen).

To have a brighter sky, darken the materials (whatever your RC. that's how it works throughout), and the other way around.

If i misunderstood, please reply and let me know (sorry i overlooked this thread entirely for a while, my bad...)