Layered VFB

[duke2]

You know what would hurtle vray ahead of the competition? Live PSD/PSB files. For the most part we all do post in photoshop for stills, and the render can look drasticallly different at the end of it. What if, instead of having to re-render and update your file, the VFB could create or load a PSD and link the different layers to different render elements (note to devs: you can save per document and per layer xmp metadata)? You could re-order layers, change opacity, blending modes and adjustment layers and have a live preview of the end result right in the VFB. Anything vray doesn't support, like painting and filters are disabled or support added over time.

No more bouncing between vray and photoshop with a lag time of 10-20mins to see the end result sounds good to me

[vlado]

So basically you want us to rebuild PhotoShop We could do that, but it would take a lot of development resources.

Would it not make more sense to look into some kind of live link to PhotoShop (or another similar program) directly from the VFB?

Best regards,
Vlado

[JD3D_CGI]

Nice Vlado.

Actually, I do all my post processing with AE. Even stills. A live link to that would be awesome - each element saving to a layer, or file... so basically how it currently works...

[duke2]

So basically you want us to rebuild PhotoShop We could do that, but it would take a lot of development resources.

Would it not make more sense to look into some kind of live link to PhotoShop (or another similar program) directly from the VFB?

Best regards,
Vlado

That would work too, but the advantage is totally in seeing the result before the render is finished, so a live link that supports partial renders would be ideal.