New ProEXR now supports VRay Image files

[Morne]

http://vray.info/news/article.asp?ID=530

[AJ Jefferies]

Wow - that's fantastic!

[Neilg]

I dont quite understand if it's actually free or not.

Here you can only buy it - http://store.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store....oreID=NSQ_LIVE

Here it says the ez version is free - http://fnordware.blogspot.co.uk/2012...z-is-free.html
but you have to get it from the other site, but theres no ez version. is it just the demo unactivated?

[sandykoufax]

EZ version is included in that package.(trial)
But EZ free version doesn't support multichannel EXR.

[AJ Jefferies]

Missed the part about having to rename the files to *.vri - but other than that it works like a charm.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Can any1 test it out...

10000 x 9000 pixels
50 render layers
Open that vrim- will it take 50+ min to open just like it takes 50+ to open proexr 32bit?

Thansk ,bye.

[AJ Jefferies]

Can any1 test it out...

10000 x 9000 pixels
50 render layers
Open that vrim- will it take 50+ min to open just like it takes 50+ to open proexr 32bit?

Thansk ,bye.

I can't test it right now but opening (effectively) 50 x 10000 x 9000 pixel images is never going to be quick

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Yup true, but its a lot quicker to drag 50x openEXR to photoshop than opening 1 openEXR with 50 layers :s

[super gnu]

how much ram do you use opening 50 10kx9k 32bit images?! is that just a hardcore test of some kind or do you actually use 50 layer multichannel files at that res?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Usually I do roll with around 15-30 EXR 32 bits for my comps... they actually 10x7k...

Ram... not sure, I have 48gb I didn't hit lag yet... - usually max sit in bacground with 10gb in ram rendering some extra passes on top of that...

48gb ddr3 cost only 220£ so its sin to not have it!

[Morne]

they actually 10x7k

what kind of things you render for what industry that you need such large images?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Automotive...

[AJ Jefferies]

Just wanted to say that I'm currently using this on a large format job (10k x 9k renders) with multi-channel vrimg files & it works like an absolute charm. If I have one quibble it's that it splits the alpha as a layer, rather than into the correct channel but that's a really minor problem compared to my previous method of manually splitting out the channels as exrs...etc.

Really impressed!