max 2019.3 update - viewport

[chris_img]

Hi, i'm just trying out vray inside the viewport with the newwest max update enables. It works great apart from 2 things:

*It opens the vfb and the error message window every time i enable activeview or i resize/max-min windows - which does get tedious to close everytime.

*It doesnt resolve from a noisy image until i click in the viewport somewhere, which the starts the process all over again.

but it looks like it will be a very helpfull feature.

[vlado]

Thanks for the pointer on the VDB message - will make a note to hide the message for viewport IPR.

I’m not quite sure I understand the second part about the update. I know that the viewport IPR doesn’t refresh when a different viewport is active, but I’m not sure this is the problem in your case.

Best regards,
Vlado

[chris_img]

Hi Vlado, thanks for replying. What happens is the the first noisy stage starts then it will not displsy the clean denoised finished render until i click in the viewport again, which makes it switch to the final render ---but because i have clicked somewhere it starts the render over again.

[chris_img]

I get this until i pan the viewport or select another object. Perhaps its working as it should and i'm expecting to much?

[chris_img]

Also i've opened up an old scene and when i start active shade the objects are always in front drawn as if still in standard viewport mode.

[vlado]

Also i've opened up an old scene and when i start active shade the objects are always in front drawn as if still in standard viewport mode.

Can you send me that scene to vlado@chaosgroup.com ? It probably depends on the viewport draw mode that was chosen.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

I get this until i pan the viewport or select another object. Perhaps its working as it should and i'm expecting to much?

Hm, I don’t really get this here, it works as expected; do you have the issue on any scene?

Best regards,
Vlado

[chris_img]

Can you send me that scene to vlado@chaosgroup.com ? It probably depends on the viewport draw mode that was chosen.

Best regards,
Vlado

Sure, here's a scene - the ball is always drawn over the top of vray.

[chris_img]

Hm, I don’t really get this here, it works as expected; do you have the issue on any scene?

Best regards,
Vlado

Yes, all scenes.
Ok, i left my machine running, came back and i have a clear noise free viewport. So it does resolve, just slowly. It takes 30 sec for a teapot and plane underneath with 1 light to become noise free. sound right? I can get the noise free almost straight away by clicking left or middle mouse button (right click doesnt work).

I have V-RayRT 3.60.04 slected for active shade renderer - Cuda engine type and both my gpu ( quadro p4000 ) and cpu selected in render devices.

[vlado]

I have V-RayRT 3.60.04 slected for active shade renderer - Cuda engine type and both my gpu ( quadro p4000 ) and cpu selected in render devices.

Ok, you should have mentioned that. We couldn't get the ActiveShade mode to work properly; we looked into it with Autodesk, but we/they couldn't find why it doesn't update. This is why for V-Ray Next we have our own "Viewport IPR" mode which works correctly and ignores the ActiveShade workflow in 3ds Max. Sorry about that :/

Best regards,
Vlado

[chris_img]

Ah, i see, got it. Thanks for explaining Vlado.