Vray Dome camera settings

[Animato727]

I am working on a Sunset using the Vray dome camera. I have a few problems.

1. The dome camera does not have much control. It is extremely difficult to use it with the Vray Sun/sky. Can the physical camera settings be somehow mimicked on the dome camera.

2. I tried a work around by using the vray render settings, and applying a fisheye setting under the camera settings. The physical camera seems to ignore this change.

I am using vray 1.5

thanks.
Patrick

[vlado]

For the 1st, no. But you can use the dome camera and adjust image brightness from the V-Ray color mapping options.

For the 2nd, the camera settings in the Render Scene dialog, except for some motion blur settings, are ignored if the V-Ray physical camera is used.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Animato727]

OK, I did the dome camera with linear color and reduced it to .04. They sky looks good but the props are messed up. Some very flat shading going on. Its prob. in my settings. Here are 2 images to compare. Any ideas?





Thanks,
Patrick

[Animato727]

Dome camera with color mapping seems to hate Adaptive DMC. Switched to subD. and cleaned up alot of jaggys. Tried to use DMC with universal settings and it looked like rock candy. I guess I just need to work through some settings on this. Any more tips would be great. I am curious why the DMC flipped out when i color mapped.

[vlado]

I'll check it out when I get to work tomorrow.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Animato727]

Thanks,

Just let me know if you want my scene file, if you dont get the same results on your own.

Patrick

[vlado]

Well everything seems to be in order here; so if you can email me the scene to vlado@chaosgroup.com this will be helpful.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Animato727]

I sent my file. Also here is a render of the DMC.


By animato727

thanks for the help.
Patrick

[vlado]

Yep, I got it. It will render fine if you set the Dark and Bright multipliers for the HSV color mapping to the same value.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Animato727]

Thats it. Thanks. Perfect.