V-Ray For Blender 3.0 (Beta)

[bdancer]

bardo, where is more convenient for you (I just prefer github for issues because it's more easy to track what was/was-not fixed).

[bardo]

ok. I'll use github

[andybot_cg]

+1 for github
It has been working very well so far. Much more interactive than this forum (especially because here I can't edit any posts in this sub-forum...)

[ockelford]

Dear Andrei

I just installed the latest from the nightlies section. My first reaction was "where is everything!!!" . Then I realised that EVERYTHING is in the nodes. I'm a bit nervous because if I need to work on an old project, most of the materials will need to be changed, but then I saw that you can export VRmat materials, which would speed up lots of the basic materials I use on all projects.

One question - how does the VRmat export work? I connect the VRmat node after the last node before the output, fill out the file path and press 'save', but no file is created. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Rob

[bdancer]

Rob, you need to setup path to material and select material using button beside "Name" field.
Save and load buttons are currently not fully functional - the idea was to "unpack" selected material into nodes with "Load" and save back to file with "Save".
Btw, I've uploaded an update for VRmat node - material selection was broken.

For old vb25 projects you could also use "Convert To Nodes" button under "Render Layers" buttons "Tools" panel.

[ockelford]

Thanks Andrei,

Appreciate the tips. Also, I want to create a proxy / vrmeshes.

If an object is already a proxy, you can edit the object node, but it seems impossible to add an object node to a new object. I noticed that the Override Gemotry in the panel is now gone, and can get it to work only with an old proxy object. The generate proxy function still works though.

[bdancer]

Rob, go to Object buttons, add a node tree then replace geometry node with VRayProxy node. Also check this link: https://github.com/bdancer/vb30/wiki/Nodes-Layout.

[ockelford]

Andrei,

Sorry I was slow to read all the documentation, now I understand how it all works. Nearly everything is nodal!

I have it all in my head now. This is AWESOME! I am very glad I've moved over to VRB3!!

Thanks for all your hard work, I'll try and find some bugs!

Rob.

[blendervrayf]

HI
I do not want to go off topic and I do not want to open a new thread to no avail.

I just wanted to know if in the future will be possible use the node compositing with vray.

thanks

[bdancer]

blendervrayf, you could use it right now, but only with "Image File" node as input. I mean "Render Layers" node is not supported.

[kontrolermpl]

I just installed new build and I`m glad, that I`m working with this software!! I had some problems with dll libraries, but anyway this is awesome! Congratulations bdancer!

[bdancer]

kontrolermpl, thanks! Check the first post -- I've updated it to mention that you'll have install the Visual Studio 2013 Redistributable, this should help.

[blendervrayf]

Thank you ..
but how can I work on the image rendered with vray?

the image is always rendered on a new external window ....

[bdancer]

blendervrayf, you could render to file with autosave option.

[B_S]

Some where are documentation on nodes? Because there are so many nodes, that i cant figure what they mean and what i can do with them.

p.s.: thanks for you work Andrey, you path to chaosgroup is impressive. Hope they add (in near future) to workgroup "vray for blender" a couple more programers...