Preset problem

[Mats_O]

I have problem with Max 2009 and VRay presets. I can save to presets, and I do see the presets show up in the list. I check the vray.cfg in a texteditor and see the different settings are correct. However nothing changes after loading different presets, even not if I close the render dialog and open the render dialog again nothing has loaded, it keeps the old settings. What´s wrong here?

[mike_kennedy]

check to make sure the file is not set to "READ ONLY"

[Mats_O]

It´s not read-only, thanks anyway.
I am just producing about 100 stills for a viz-project and I have to manually do all the changes in VRay each time I jump between test and sending renders away for finals. Timeconsuming...
Vlado, do you have any ideas?
Thanks!

[mike_kennedy]

Have you tried using the Max preset system, I works fine for us.
The read only issue also crops up due to permissions with Max 9 / XP, we had to make a bunch of custom changes to user accounts to get it working flawlessly...

[Mats_O]

Yes, I tried Max own and that works fine which is good. So why does VRay has its own at all?

[vlado]

Yes, I tried Max own and that works fine which is good. So why does VRay has its own at all?

Because, initially 3ds Max did not have any Also, the V-Ray presets allow you to save only a part of the settings (e.g. only the AA ones, or only the GI settings etc).

Best regards,
Vlado

[nils_p]

Just to whip this up.

Will there be a decent Vray preset manager? All the scripts I've seen have the scripters own settings in there.

[gfa2]

Marc Lorenz has a nice preset manager.

http://plugins.angstraum.at/vraypm/manual.htm

[nils_p]

Sorry for the late reply but I just tested this script. I can't really get it to work.
Everytime I assign a preset to vray I states that vray is not the current renderer.
It seems this script was written for an older version so many of the new items are not added in the presets. Is there a way to fix this?

[RErender]

Sorry for the late reply but I just tested this script. I can't really get it to work.
Everytime I assign a preset to vray I states that vray is not the current renderer.
It seems this script was written for an older version so many of the new items are not added in the presets. Is there a way to fix this?

I don't have time to test it right now but I think if you change the line in VRayPM.ms from

if (findString (slot as string) "VRay"!=undefined) then return true

to

if (findString (slot as string) "V_Ra"!=undefined) then return true

it should work

[nils_p]

if (findString (slot as string) "V_Ra"!=undefined) then return true

it should work

You forgot a "y"

Thx It works. You're the man!


Is there a list of all new commands (reinhart; gamma; DMC; etc...) so I can insert them myself in the presets?

[RErender]

Cool, glad that worked.

As I remember Marc's script created the presets on the fly so they should pick up any new options? Those are not working?

Maybe Marc will see this thread, heh

[nils_p]

Hopefully he will.

I just want to make my own specific preset but I don't know the vray settings in maxscript