Best 3D engine for Vray?

[KVMaster]

Does anyone have any recommendations for a 3D engine that supports Vray materials (free or paid)? Currently developing in Panda3D and it doesn't seem to recognize Vray materials (using standard raytrace right now).

[Neilg]

No 3d engines will support vray, you'll have to convert to standard no matter what you use.

[KVMaster]

So all engines use their own material property algorithms? I'm new to this so I don't exactly know how it works. Currently exploring Panda3D.

[taran0]

render to texture

yes thats right

theres no engine that supports vray but what you can do is bake the GI lighting into a texture and then use that in the game engine, add some game lights to add some extra depth.

most real-time engine you can also import normal maps or bump maps too.

see an example here
http://www.vray.us/vray_tutorials/vr...tutorial.shtml

taran

[mike_kennedy]

For conversion you most likely have to use the Scanline materials because that is what most exporters support. There are scripts that do this automatically on Script Spot.

[KramSurfer]

Yeah, you're not going to find an engine to directly support it... but I would recommend looking at the Torque Game Engine... Lots a tools included, excellent code. Support for console's if you should ever get that far with your title! I know it sounds like a sales pitch, but I've recently got into making some assets for this engine and am very impressed with the possibilities you get for a mere $295...

http://www.garagegames.com/