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[mitviz]

In my case interactivity in context is much more important, since that is where I spend active time. During rendering I can do something else. I don't think it is because of their final render time Fstorm, etc is generating so much interest.

with fstorm interiors are slow i have to admit even on 4 gpus, well my 4 but exteriors are fast, and i think people like myself just like it, others love octane, honestly though these days i like all of them, lol, from vray to corona to fstorm, each has something about them you just love

[glorybound]

My gold material is not supported, I'll have to get it to you. It's the gold from the Sigar material library.

[glorybound]

Here is my gold

https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/...3-1594dd27773f

[glorybound]

Actually, it seems to be all my Siger reflective materials, they are using a proprietary script.

https://www.sigershop.eu/free-3ds-max-plugins/

[Nicinus]

Actually, it seems to be all my Siger reflective materials, they are using a proprietary script.

https://www.sigershop.eu/free-3ds-max-plugins/

I think I read somewhere that Siger will be redoing his materials to go away from proprietary scripts, but maybe that was just my wishful thinking.

Can you imagine a future where materials get standardized?

[savage309]

In my case interactivity in context is much more important, since that is where I spend active time. During rendering I can do something else. I don't think it is because of their final render time Fstorm, etc is generating so much interest.

I see, yes. Although I think it is not bad at all (check this), I can see if this can get any better.
Thanks for the feedback !

Best,
Blago.

[eyepiz]

Actually, it seems to be all my Siger reflective materials, they are using a proprietary script.

https://www.sigershop.eu/free-3ds-max-plugins/

I realized a few years ago that Siger Shaders were probably the cause of a lot of my issues slowing down renders. I haven't really tried Siger Shader's new update. I didn't like that it uses those proprietary scripts when native ones exist.

Now days as good practice I just re-make all my shaders especially with prop's they can do weird stuff. The fist thing I do when I purchase a prop is fire up RT GPU and re-do the all shaders and just keeps the maps.

I mainly work on interiors and use a combination of Vray RT GPU and Vray Adv CPU in my daily workflow...it's a great combination of tools.

[glorybound]

both PSD Manager and Siger needs to make things work for RT, in my opinion, if the want to stay relevant in V-Ray. If RT is 2X faster than Buckets, then I will probably have to learn to live without them.

[mitviz]

alot of the premade mats are so slow, its always better to go with your own, sometimes what is needed is something really simple yet stil they have long chains of nodes leading to the same thing basically so always better to make your own, usually a little diffuse and bump is really all that's needed, some dirt but no need for a material 20 chains long

[eyepiz]

both PSD Manager and Siger needs to make things work for RT, in my opinion, if the want to stay relevant in V-Ray. If RT is 2X faster than Buckets, then I will probably have to learn to live without them.

I used PSD Manager for a long time...I switched to ProEXR for an animation I needed in a layered EXR and never bothered to switch back to PSD manager. I now only use ProEXR for Photoshop, it even opens Vray's native vrimg.

[tricky]

Although I fail to see how this is relevant to the discussion.

A bit of light-hearted banter to enliven a tech forum

[glorybound]

ProEXR brings all the layer masks in?

I used PSD Manager for a long time...I switched to ProEXR for an animation I needed in a layered EXR and never bothered to switch back to PSD manager. I now only use ProEXR for Photoshop, it even opens Vray's native vrimg.

[glorybound]

I just re-rendered an exterior scene, at 4K with all the bells and whistles and what was taking 45 minutes, took 30 minutes. Now 45 minutes was impressive, but I upgraded my PC right when 3.4 came out, so I couldn't appreciate any speed V-Ray contributed. From 45 minutes to 30 minutes is huge, and nothing change, except I installed V-Ray 3.5 Beta II.

[eyepiz]

ProEXR brings all the layer masks in?

I'm not really sure...It just bring in all your render elements in one file using a multi-channel EXR or multi-channel vrimg, you can even open your Vray frame buffer history files in Photoshop just like another file. I just checked to see if it had any updates and it appears to be free now. It doesn't have any of the bells and whistles of PSD Manager, but PSD Manager was taking an eternity to save files on my machine.

Give it a shot... It was totally worth the $50 bucks it was before, and now it's free!

http://fnordware.blogspot.com/2017/0...r-is-free.html

[eyepiz]

ProEXR brings all the layer masks in?

I just found this linked on ProEXR page. it sums it up pretty good.

Exr-IO Vray and Photoshop workflow tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOIFOz1SE