Do you use Rhino block

[kostenurka]

Hello,

I still don't feel comfortable to render rhino blocks. At my work for instance I got lots of blocks to render but the problem is that I can't control the texture mapping for blocks. This is why I still explode all blocks and go for vray proxy if instances are too much.

Wondering if you guys have a successful workflow for rendering blocks you might want to share?

thanks!

[Micha_cg]

1.5 ... don't use proxies at blocks, because a bug that will be fixed in the next update

1.05 ... I use blocks all days. My blocks are separate files at the HDD linked to the scene. If I need, that I edit the block file and use the blockmanager to update it at the scene. Trick: mapping isn't sticky to the block objects, so I you need to work with meshes, apply mapping and export/import as obj. So the mapping UV are burned in the mesh. One mapping channel can be used at this way only.

[kostenurka]

Thank you micha,

I only use 1.5 vray. Really wish block can be properly rendered at 1.5 without export/import obj (but this is rather rhino issue- how to deal with the mapping), as you end up accumulating bunch of files...

[gregb]

1.5 ... don't use proxies at blocks, because a bug that will be fixed in the next update

Hi Micha. Dragging up this old thread because it was the only place I could find blocks and proxies mentioned together. Using Rhino5 SR8 with Vray 2.00.02 and using a proxy as a block results in an immediate Rhino crash when rendering with Vray.

Do you know if this is still a bug? It's strange because in the Vray help it even suggests to use this method: "If you need to create several proxies linked to the same .vrmesh file, it's better to make them blocks - this will save memory since the .vrmesh file will be loaded only once."

[fpedrogo]

Hi gregb
Can you send me the scene that is crashing your Rhino? Please include the proxy, etc.

[gregb]

Thanks for the reply, Fernando.

Every time I've attempted to use any block, linked or not, of a proxy it causes an immediate Rhino crash on starting a Vray render.

I can send a simple test file of a cube that is proxied and then blocked, but I can't attach files, aside from images here or via PM. Files sent to vrayrhino@chaosgroup.com

System:
Rhino 5 SR8 x64
Vray 2.00.02
Windows 7

[fpedrogo]

Oh, sorry for my lack of memory.
That was a known issue that we fixed. The fixed will be available in the Service Release 1 that we are working on. The release will be very soon.

[gregb]

Great, looking forward to using that feature. Thanks!