Vray Books?

[swenson]

Hello,

I have been admiring many of you and your birlliant grasp of this application (as well as real world physics) , Goncalo, Vlado, Egz & Suurland to name a few...

I was wondering if there were any books or publications related to Vray that might help understand it better? ...other than the Evermotion vids and help file of course.

If not, are there any books that you would recommend to get a better grasp on photorealistic texturing, lighting, rendering methods etc?

Thanks!

Swenson

[Dman3d]

Perhaps books on studio photography and stage lighting might be a place
to start. Less intense than say physics. Of course there are a ton of MAX
and other 3d manuals out there.

If it helps you at all, I have come to learn that overall composition is a
good place to focus on a scene. I have seen a ton of tea pots that
actually look good and complex well modeled scenes fall apart.

Try to focus on bits of your scene, then look at the overall. I am afraid
there is no way around tweaking or a magic bullet to solve all.

One experiment I tried that helped was to model a simple room, say
16' x 16'. Place two small windows on one wall, two larger windows on
the next and a doorway on one of the remaining walls. Model another
room off of the wall with the doorway with large openings to the outside.
Then experiement with skylight only, then add a sun and see what results
you can get. The layout of the room tends to act like 3 point lighting so
you can get some fairly good results. Experiment with the wall, ceiling and
floor colors.

As for the technical end, reading the manual over and over helped me
though I am still learning, and the board here. The users here are second
to none and help until you are fixed up. A great place indeed.

Good luck, hope to see some of your experiments in the gallery.

[swenson]

Thank you for your suggestions.

I like your concept. I will run some experiments with it.

I hope to post some work for critique soon.

Thanks again.

Swenson