VRay Proxy's...what the??

[Hayzie]

Hi everyone...

I have been reading over the site and posts for some time now and have learnt a s*$# load of stuff.
So first off thank you very much.

I haven't really had to post anything before because I have found the solution to my problem in other posts but I was wondering.....

Could someone please explain to me how VRay Proxys work.???

My thought was that you could make, for example, a bunch of houses in seperate files and make proxys of them. Then bring the proxys into a new file and not have a super huge file....I've found thats good to set up and render a test animation but, as I'm sure you all know, the proxys have a base colour....not the ones that may have been applied to the original model.

I hear different people talking about using proxys trees etc......how do you use then and clone etc with textures and materials applied???

I hope someone can help me out.....this would make my scenes alot easier to manage!

Thanks again for all the help that you all constanly provide!!!

Hayzie
Queensland, Australia

[RErender]

attach all the meshes together before creating the VRmesh the multimat will work on the proxy with the proper IDs

[Hayzie]

Thanks for the reply but....

Sorry you lost me a little bit there...

How do you mean attch the meshes ??

And with th multimat....do I have to put all of the materials into one multimat inorder to have them apply to the model?

I think I get a bit confused with different terminology, I hope it's not too much trouble for some one to explain a bit better.

Thanks for the first tip though

[Syclone1]

If all your objects are editable meshes then just select 1 object go to the modifier panel and select attach list

Select the objects you want to "attach" to make a single model and hit the select button

You can probably stick with the defaults for the material options when it asks, hit ok and your done.

It will create a multi/sub material for you so just save that to a mat lib, export the new mesh to a vray proxy.

Then just place the new vray proxy into what ever scene you are working on and apply the multi/sub material you saved earlier to the vray proxy object, hit render and your done

if you need further into on attaching editable meshes I suggest looking into the 3dsmax user reference.

hope that helps a little...

-dave

[RErender]

yep, that's it, guess I could of used a few more words.

[Hayzie]

Thank you very much !!!

I thought that might have been what was meant but always good to make sure.

I get the idea now....I'll give it a go and see how I go from there

Thanks again!

[Syclone1]

np and good luck

Under normal circumstances I prob would have given the same answer RErender but I was waiting for a render so I had a few more minutes for a couple extra lines

-dave

[Ryan_Chiong]

Just a question, how do you export a mesh to vraymesh.? i dont have that export to option as vraymesh or vray proxy. can anyone help me on this?

Ryan

[RErender]

just type doVRayMeshExport() in the listener window, or you can drag the same text to a toolbar and it will create a button for it.

[natty]

you have the option in the Quad menu ..

[Ryan_Chiong]

thanks guys! u are really great