V-Ray/Blender 2.5

[Sandking]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Well, actually you can. You just need to create a proxy with ply2vrmesh and then link it to empty.

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Can you select an empty as an object for visualisation in a particle system?

[StompinTom]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Can you select an empty as an object for visualisation in a particle system?

Should be ok...

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Proxies are not yet ported to 2.5, should work fine in 2.4.

[geejay]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Just tried the new exporter for 2.5 and I am AMAZED. Kickass! Your work is much appreciated and as soon as I can afford I will throw some money your way.

One question tough: When adding a hemi I get a crash on rendering? Is this implemented? I wanted to add a HDR texture to the hemi, as with 2.49 but I can't even add the hemi by itself.

How do I set an HDR background with the 2.5 exporter?

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Hemi is in progress. No env images yet too ((

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Anyone got this working on the mac?

I added "/Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/vray/bin" to my $PATH variable. It shows up in the terminal when i echo the $PATH, but when i hit render in Blender (V-Ray selected as the main renderer, output directory chosen) i get nothing. V-Ray doesn't even open.

Now when i enter "sh vray" in the terminal, vray opens, but when i hit render in Blender it says in the Console : "sh: vray: command not found"

Also the scene files aren't placed in the Output folder i specified in Blender, nor with my .blend file. They are stored in a $TEMP folder, because in the console it says "Exporting path doesn't exist, trying to create.."

All geometry export seems fine though, as I was able to render the scene file through the Terminal (sh vray -sceneFile="$TEMP")

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

@soulofsound, try to symlink vray binary to /usr/bin like:

ln -s /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/vray/bin/vray /usr/bin/

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Thanks a lot, Andrey. That worked.

Note for os x users, use sudo if you get 'permission denied', so you can authorize the operation with your password.

sudo ln -s /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009/Maya.app/Contents/vray/bin/vray /usr/bin/

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Has the Blender 2.5 API improved already, to allow better V-Ray integration?

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Sorry for such a big delay - I was working on some hardware firmware development for cinema SFX project.
I've some success in material preview (very buggy by various reasons and some other additions.
Now I plan to work full time on vb development for a couple of months.
I move my sources to git repository for faster user access, updates and changes tracking and will public information about it this week.

[maces]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Great news

maces

[jorisAR]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Thanks for the update, looking forward to the updates next week.

Cheers and good luck

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Development branch is moved to github: http://github.com/bdancer/vb25
Wiki: http://wiki.github.com/bdancer/vb25/
Installation: http://wiki.github.com/bdancer/vb25/installation

Custom builds: http://github.com/bdancer/vb25/downloads
Patch set: http://github.com/bdancer/vb25-patch
Patch usage: http://wiki.github.com/bdancer/vb25-patch/
Check automatic Blender compilation script!

Some new features:
- automatic V-Ray Standalone and V-Ray For Maya Demo installation detection
- material preview
- render image is automatically loaded to Blender (and Esc now stops render and close VFB window)

Always use the latest SVN build from GraphicAll.org or make your own build!

PS: sorry for URL being down ((

[maces]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Very cool,

I've tested the "python only"-version, will compile a new blender now. Work well, looks very nice.

First notes:
- The material preview is very awesome
- I think the cube, Suzanne, ect. are on your todolist?
- Is there a checkbox, to leave the VFB open, after rendering
- I'm felling a bit uncomfortable with the arrangement of the buttons. But I think it's just the switch from horizontal to vertical.
- The (pre)view in VRay is much darker than the result in Blenders render window.
- rendertime etc. is passed to Blender

Feature requests:
- There is a "active Layer" button, could there also be a possibility to choose which layer to render. (I often disabled not needed layers for modelling and forgot the enable them for exporting)
- Integration of render slots, for easy comparison

(Maybe a) bug:
- when I want to see the result of the render, but closed the render window (in blender, by pressing ESC) during the render, the image is lost. Render > Exit Blenders render window > Vray has finished the image > switching to render window > Image lost.
- When rendering some 2.5 files (from Blenderguru) I get: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'

maces