render presets not holding

[andrewjohn81]

I have a file that I have to use a toon shader. Of course, ink and paint doesn't work in vray, so I have to use mental ray (or scanline).

The problem is when I return Vray's settings are back to default. I saved all the info and named the preset. It changes something, but it definitely didn't hold all the settings.

I'm looking specifically at the Image sampler. No matter what I put for the setting it goes to Adaptive subdivision with min -1, max 2

but I had 0 and 3 because I had to oversample this thing a little bit.

I Think everything else held, but I don't know for sure. Can anyone else verify this? Am I doing something wrong or is this just a bug?

[studioDIM]

save out the render presets from the Max render dialog
It worked a treat here: it even saves out the IRMap saving settings: i was able to prepare a batch render with 4 different cameras, and 4 different IRMaps names, and render the lot with one click.

Hope it helps...

Re,
Lele

[andrewjohn81]

I suppose that's fine if it works, but then what is the presets button for in vray?

I'll give that a try

[vlado]

I think Ink'n'Paint should work fine for the most part with V-Ray, including the toon lines, although it may take extra memory. You can also use VRayToon.

Best regards,
Vlado

[dlparisi]

save out the render presets from the Max render dialog
It worked a treat here: it even saves out the IRMap saving settings: i was able to prepare a batch render with 4 different cameras, and 4 different IRMaps names, and render the lot with one click.

Hope it helps...

Re,
Lele

Can you explain how you "render a lot with one click"? I'm on Viz 2005, are there new batch rendering tools (render multiple cameras, load settings, etc.) in later releases that I'm not aware of?

Thanks,
David

[studioDIM]

when you batch render you can choose, per job, a scene state (max 7.5) and a render preset to go with a camera.

I'm not sure it's in Viz, so i can't comment on it, sorry.

Lele