Originally posted by vladimir.nedev
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What should we expect about V-Ray for Modo release/price/continuity?
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I'd vote for extended V-ray RT support as a strong top pick
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Vladimir Nedev
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I'd vote for extended V-ray RT support as a strong top pick
Would also vote for
Variation texture modes and
Volume Grid
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Originally posted by WilleViz View PostThis is my wish above everything else. Being able to import and reuse stuff from Max/Vray is really important if you want to hit the ground running with MODO/Vray. I think this could make it an insta-buy for a lot of the people that are moving beyond Max/Vray. I know that I would make a big marketing thing out if this feature, if it was me.
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Originally posted by vladimir.nedev View PostAs for a road-map, maybe it is a good idea to have some kind of vote here, on which of the bigger features to implement first.
Most of them will require between 2 and 4 weeks EACH, maybe even more for some of them.
Here they are:
- import of materials/textures/lights/render settings from .vrscene files
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Vladimir Nedev
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Originally posted by BVA View PostI have done a few tests this morning with RT GPU...on my gtx970 it is a lot faster than cpu So if I can alter my "big dreams list", please can we get more/ better RT GPU integration.
It will make the production a lot faster
I haven't followed the RT GPU discussions and am not sure where to start searching for a list of limitations. I found that all my lights are hard with no falloffs on the shadows...is that a setting or a limitation at the moment?
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Vladimir NedevLast edited by vladimir.nedev; 13-08-2015, 05:40 AM.
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I have done a few tests this morning with RT GPU...on my gtx970 it is a lot faster than cpu So if I can alter my "big dreams list", please can we get more/ better RT GPU integration.
It will make the production a lot faster
I haven't followed the RT GPU discussions and am not sure where to start searching for a list of limitations. I found that all my lights are hard with no falloffs on the shadows...is that a setting or a limitation at the moment?
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For me it's:
- texture baking (gi and lighting)
- full variation texture support
- missing render elements
- mesh light
- vray fur
Thanks for your great work Vladimir.
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Originally posted by 1funk View PostI'd like to see modo's procedurals as well, but we really need TF to provide access to them through the SDK.
It would suck if every 3rd party renderer has to reinvent the wheel and implement their own automated baking (which I'm guessing would be pretty slow)
We need to get TFs attention on this issue They are already doing some cool things along these lines with the rendercache API (for geometry though), so I don't think it would be too hard to convince them.
The problem that exists in VrayForC4D is that the render nodes are powered by a generic Vray standalone (at least this is the case with the existing VrayForC4d engine which uses the 2.4 Vray core). So baking of C4D procedurals is the only way of DR/Network rendering with native C4D procedurals. On a single workstation VrayForC4d utilises C4D's native procedurals without baking.
As I understand it VrayForModo ships with bespoke Modo specific render node standalones so maybe this might provide a solution for Modo native procedurals in the long run.
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I'd like to see modo's procedurals as well, but we really need TF to provide access to them through the SDK.
It would suck if every 3rd party renderer has to reinvent the wheel and implement their own automated baking (which I'm guessing would be pretty slow)
We need to get TFs attention on this issue They are already doing some cool things along these lines with the rendercache API (for geometry though), so I don't think it would be too hard to convince them.
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Originally posted by 1funk View Post
EDIT: I'm sorry I just noticed you only quoted the second part of my post which refers to "bake to texture" etc. Yes... in the case of bake to texture, there really would be no reason to do that in V-Ray now that I think about it.
The main thing I'm pushing for is the automated bake of procedurals at render time (in the same manner as VrayForC4D). Although I wouldn't expect a feature of this nature in the first couple of service packs; Vladimir has bigger fish to fry first.
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Originally posted by jonmoore View PostUnless I'm misunderstanding things
I'm interested in baking V-Rays shading (GI and lighting) into textures (the equivalent of "bake to render outputs" in modo)
EDIT: I'm sorry I just noticed you only quoted the second part of my post which refers to "bake to texture" etc. Yes... in the case of bake to texture, there really would be no reason to do that in V-Ray now that I think about it.Last edited by 1funk; 12-08-2015, 03:50 AM.
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Originally posted by 1funk View Post
Modo has other types of baking too eg.
"Bake to texture" in the shader tree is like flattening several layers in photoshop.
Baking from object to texture, which is useful for doing normal maps from high to low poly objects etc
I assume V-ray supports something similar too.
A month or so back Vladimir and I were discussing the way this is approached in VrayForC4D with regard to C4D's native procedural textures. VrayForC4D allows you to use native C4D procedurals but bakes them at render time so any Vray render nodes can make use those C4D native procedurals whilst C4D maintains the procedural nature of those textures in the scene file. It's nifty workaround and something that I think would be welcomed in Modo at some point.
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Originally posted by vladimir.nedev View PostThe shade map is a way of speeding up stereo rendering that V-Ray for Max/Maya have.
I think it involves rendering the image in two passes - first pass renders the center of the two eyes storing the shading computations in a shade map(which I think is similar to a deep EXR),
the second pass renders both the left and right eye, but reuses the shading from the first pass (the shade map) to speed things up.
Without the shade map, it might be very easy to add stereo rendering.
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Vladimir Nedev
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Texture baking would be great! I assume it's the same as Modo's "bake to render outputs", which lets you bake your render outputs to a selected UV map. I don't have experience with V-ray in other applications.
Modo has other types of baking too eg.
"Bake to texture" in the shader tree is like flattening several layers in photoshop.
Baking from object to texture, which is useful for doing normal maps from high to low poly objects etc
I assume V-ray supports something similar too.
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