New user...Old Questions ?!?!

[trick]

After collecting dust for over 5 years I upgraded my MAX3 to the latest and also bought myself VRay Advanced. I still have to get it on my doorstep and here I am already with some questions (I have read a lot in this forum but I could not find straight solutions for my problem):

Can I save the irradiance map for diffuse and indirect lighting only, and use that afterwards for my animation combining it with the direct lighting from MAX? This way I can BAKE the diffuse lighting in the moving elements (waving trees, walking characters, cars, etc) without doing direct GI (or composite the moving parts afterwards) and WIN on rendertimes!!!

Can the brightness of the irradiance map be tuned (in brightness/color) afterwards ? When doing day2night scenes I don't want the renderhit from direct GI, so I want the subtle lighting from the irradiance map and the gross lighting change from direct MAX-lighting. In this case however I need to dim and color-tune the lighting from the irradiance map when sun sets.

I'm not looking for physically correct and realistic behaviour, just for fast - simulated - solutions.

If this is not possible already, just yell and I put this in "feature requests".

Thanks,
Rik

[trick]

I found a sort of manual for 1.5 here: http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/VRayHelp150beta/

The answer to my second question sould be the Dark Multiplier

[tom schuelke]

Welcome again in the forum and a good decision.

Well that was many questions.

first, if you´ve got your advanced version of vray you alsoget access to the new beta.

with the beta you can render out several passes from vray. look at this link

http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/VRayHelp150beta/
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and especially
http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/VRay...es_gbuffer.htm

to render moving objects will make thinkgs muchmore difficult.
here you have to render in singele frame modus or with fake gi solutions.

look at this thread.

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...ghlight=da+elf

good luck.

Tom

[trick]

And the answer to my first question: GI Only in the Global Switches

[trick]

Hi Tom,

I just found the manual you mentioned and indeed I also found the answers to my questions (see above). Having read a big part I think I am going to have a nice time with VRay (Advanced: the only way to go pro). Since I still have some large projects to do in Lightwave and Lightscape it will still take some months before starting something in MAX But in the meantime I can practice a lot and start spilling problems over here.

Cheers

Rik

[tom schuelke]

Hi Trick

just go on. take some of the smaler tutorials in the help index to get to know vray better.

make smal sceenes , test what happens when you change smal things,
and take part in this forum. there are many nice guys arround willing to help.

me, not in the next 2 weeks. i am leaving for hollidays now

yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh
god luck

Tom

[trick]

Holidays...aaargh...That's nice, but when you're back, mine is going to start. I guess you're leaving for warmer and sunnier areas since Germany want be that sunny the coming week.

Whatever, have a nice time and see you in a month or so

cheers,

Rik