V-Ray/Blender 2.5

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

soulofsound, show this errors will try find the reason.

I've found some free time - check git update for sky. Also notice that sky will work correctly only if sun (blender sun lamp with sun vray subtype) is present in the scene.

All working fine. I must have done something wrong when installing the license server. Anyway, i installed an x86 version of vray (for maya200 and it works really well. Will do some x64 testing in the coming days.
Very exciting to have V-Ray running in vb25! Thanks Andrey.

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Does anyone know a workaround for the annoying UI issues, where you get no info anymore for world or materials or textures, only empty slots with titles? I thought they solved that, but apparently the bug is still there.


Andrey, i really like it that the VFB can render while still working in Blender, and doesn't have to be closed anymore. I thought us mac users would never have that privilege, but it's finally there. Lovely!

[StompinTom]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Does anyone know a workaround for the annoying UI issues, where you get no info anymore for world or materials or textures, only empty slots with titles? I thought they solved that, but apparently the bug is still there.

Haven't come across this yet...

Is particle instancing and dupliface/very support in the 2.5 build yet? I can't seem to get it to work...

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Particles not yes, dupli works for me =) I'll upload some updates in a few days.

[voytov]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Hi Andrey,
The "black sky" error is back today. The declared sky texture doesn't load into rendering phase..

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

voytov, works fine for me - send me your scene.

[voytov]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Excuse me Andrey,
I screwed up something.
Works OK.
Simply too little sleep recently..

[haikalle]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Project stopped for 1 month - need to work for food ((

This is very good thing for you. Congrats But I really hope that there could be option for us as a user of your script to update the script while
you are working something else. I don't want to sound too harsh by saying that. You are the creater of this script and I will always continue to donate
money for you. (Haven't done that so much lately but I will very soon). Like for example I have modified the script that I can use image textures with SSS2
material. I understand that code that users give sometimes can be very bad written code, but I hope that there would be room for some kind of team work here too.
Thanks again for great script you have provided for us

[voytov]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Hello everybody,
Personally I think/hope that if any of us couldn't figure out recently, when would that optimal moment for some donation come, we now it now..
Andrey thanks again for your great efforts! Your'e pushing the World forward!
=)

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Testing the mac build, did anything change for V-Ray sky? I can't seem to render a sky, although World has a V-Ray sky texture assigned. I tested with and without a sun.
Also, (how) can we already do HDRI?

One comment : with the last build it was possible to have multiple VFBs open, but that doesn't seem to work anymore i can now only render one VFB at a time, and it takes some time to close as well. When it's not closed, i get some weird behaviour in Blender, like objects not rotating, parameters not saved, ..

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Build affect only export meshes. So it could ruin only Export meshes operation.
Everything else (texture handling, scene parsing, bla-bla, vray start) is done by the script.

did anything change for V-Ray sky?

Nop (

Also, (how) can we already do HDRI?

Why not? HDRI is just and image (but with bigger dynamic range) - so just create image texture with your HDRI in environment.
May be you want IBL (DomeLight + HDRI tex)? Then its not.

with the last build it was possible to have multiple VFBs open

If it could - than it was a bug =)

When it's not closed, i get some weird behaviour in Blender, like objects not rotating, parameters not saved, ..

Thats because render operator not finished. Anyway this is what Blender gives as default - I guess we could rewrite it =)

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Whatever i set, i don't get a sky. I tested again the earlier build, and no problems there.

[bdancer]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Whatever i set, i don't have a sky.

Show me your settings (screens with renders may be). Sky works perfectly for me.

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Here are some screenshots. Camera settings (f/8,..) are the same in all renders.

[soulofsound]

Re: V-Ray/Blender 2.5

Also for the environment texture : the cube and plane material is not reflective, but seems to reflect the environment texture. (I tried with double-sided checked and unchecked : same result)