Aerial Perspective in Vray

[damaggio]

Thanks, how do I get to the nightly build page...under my downloads I only see the official July release Maya 3.10.1...how do I see 3.15?

[vlado]

You can write to support@chaosgroup.com and ask for the aerial perspective, or you can write to me at vlado@chaosgroup.com

Best regards,
Vlado

[snivlem]

Did a few tests this morning. Looks pretty sweet Chaos Group!

One problem though that stopped any further tests is that the light cache went from 1 minute of the stable builds to (at least an hour - over lunch) when lots of VRayAreaLights lights were involved. Had to go back to the stable builds as my test scene couldn't render.

[damaggio]

Any images you could share Snivlem.?.......I havent strated my tests yet.

[snivlem]

I'm afraid I didn't save anything (they were using existing scenes) and only region renders.

I was interested to see how it would cope with being somewhat of a replacement for VRayEnvironmentFog which is sometimes quite slow with lots of lights in my little opinion anyway.

[damaggio]

No problem, maybe next time you do some tests..thanks.

[vlado]

One problem though that stopped any further tests is that the light cache went from 1 minute of the stable builds to (at least an hour - over lunch) when lots of VRayAreaLights lights were involved. Had to go back to the stable builds as my test scene couldn't render.

I would very much like to take a look at that scene, if you can send it to me at vlado@chaosgroup.com, it would be great.

Best regards,
Vlado

[damaggio]

Hi Vlado and forum , I've been trying to connect the Aerial perspective to the sky but I'm getting nowhere, could anyone post some quick steps to get connection to work.
Thanks

[snivlem]

I thought it just automatically connected to the sun and that was it - if you check "affect environment" it maybe what you are after

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Yes, it should connect automatically in a similar way as the sky.

[damaggio]

I had checked Affect Environment but did not see any result...I'll give another shot today......thanks.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

It works fine for me. Here is a simple test
aerial_test.zip

[damaggio]

Thanks a lot Ivaylo...I'll take a look in the morning.

[damaggio]

It's working Ivaylo...i'm doing some test...that was very kind of you.