Grant Warwick- Mastering Vray: Material Ideas Needed.

[grantwarwick]

Thanks!
Was there suppose to be any videos in the downloaded zip or is that still coming?

Still polishing I'm sorry!
But it's all coming together! Just trying to keep a high standard, especially due to first impressions!

[Morne]

OK go sleep now! - so I can get some work done

[glorybound]

Yes, very nice! I really appreciate all your work. On your list, maybe some glass shaders and simple metals, like chrome. The ones you posted, which I have downloaded, are AWESOME!

[grantwarwick]

OK go sleep now! - so I can get some work done

I'm not killing myself on this, just working hard.
I've been in some absolutely fucked situations work wise in my life so I know how to avoid those disasters again....

I have a full time day job, So it gives me a few hours in the night to work on it.

[grantwarwick]

Yes, very nice! I really appreciate all your work. On your list, maybe some glass shaders and simple metals, like chrome. The ones you posted, which I have downloaded, are AWESOME!

All the standard chromes and glass will come, the first release is more to prove whats possible!

[Mokiki]

had quick go through the stuff you provided. Can't wait to dig in deeper and you definitely have some interesting map names :P (looks at the caramel diffuse map)

[grantwarwick]

had quick go through the stuff you provided. Can't wait to dig in deeper and you definitely have some interesting map names :P (looks at the caramel diffuse map)

Jesus haha, I don't even want to ask!
It's safe to say I'll need to go through with a toothpick at some point!

Edit: That is hilarious,my apologies, thats what happens when a shader screws you around for 2 days!

[RockinAkin]

Jesus haha, I don't even want to ask!
It's safe to say I'll need to go through with a toothpick at some point!

Edit: That is hilarious,my apologies, thats what happens when a shader screws you around for 2 days!

Funny enough, I had just a moment to open the scene file this morning and randomly threw the Caramel shader into the node graph and it was the first map name my eyes landed on. I had a good chuckle.

Aside from that - the scene camera renders very dark for me... no bitmap or HDRI issues... any idea why?

[grantwarwick]

Is exposure on there?

Did any Gamma boxes come up when opening the scene?

[cheerioboy]

Is exposure on there?

Did any Gamma boxes come up when opening the scene?

I got the same dark render

Exposure on the vraycam? Exposure turned off on the vraycam makes the scene a bit lighter. I didn't get any gamma boxes when I opened the scene.

[RockinAkin]

Yeah, no gamma issues that I can see... it just appears to be rendering under-exposed.

[grantwarwick]

SRGB Button in Vray frame buffer?

I saved it 100% with that on because I load here and all is good.

[RockinAkin]

Yep. sRGB lookup is on... all the usual suspects seem fine. I'm on beta 3.05.03 if it helps.

Cranking the camera's ISO to something around 3500 seems to get the image back in line with your renders.

[grantwarwick]

I don't use exposure at all on my cameras.

Aside from that, the tokyo big sight HDR can go up to 4.0 to produce enough light.

[RockinAkin]

Hmmm, exposure in the Vray_HeroCam is enabled in the scene file - with exposure settings of f/7, 1/100 shutter, and ISO 400.