From Texture light?

[kriscabrera15]

Hey guys was wondering what this would be useful for? i cant find any docs on it? the 'Create from Vray plugin' tools. like the light, texture and materials etc.

[vlado]

This can menu can be used to create materials/textures/lights which are present as pure V-Ray shaders, but have no corresponding Maya representations. For example, there is a Cook-Torrance BRDF implementation that you can create from there even though we don't have this BRDF in the VRayMtl material. There are also some procedural textures like the Falloff one that people have found useful.

Best regards,
Vlado

[kriscabrera15]

could you explain a little bit more? kinda confused on how they work

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Every type of light/texture/material has it's corresponding VRay plugin. Since VRay is not only for Maya, it has plugins for other type of lights/textures etc (for example used in 3ds Max). This menu will create a custom Maya node that will allow you to use all VRay plugins.

[kriscabrera15]

oh ok i understand, thanks for clearing that up!

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Here you can find some basic information about vray-plugins:
http://help.chaosgroup.com/vray/help...ins/index.html