Please help! Urgent!

[fooprobe]

Did you try removing displacement?

[Helldoor]

Hi fooprobe.

Yes, I did. No real effect. Also, the texture used by the tower (look above) has no displacement and still managed to triple the file size...

. I saved my scene, after importing and applying each texture. It was crazy, as I saw, that after applying the concrete thexture to the tower in the scene (check TOWER pic), the scene size grew from 250 mb to about 700 mb!

[Micha]

Does _viscleanmaterialtable work?

[renee81]

He is on 1.5 so it is not available

[jakub007]

this may seem strange and absolutely incorrect, but are you using blocks for some of your objects? I was trying to render simply seen couple days ago where i created object with vray materials as block. almost couldn't get through light pass, but when i exploded the blocks everything worked.

[Helldoor]

Hi again,

@Micha : '_viscleanmaterialtable' - this is an unknown command for my Rhino/Vray. That's why it couldn't work.

@renee81 : '_viscleanmaterialtable' is not available in VRay 1.5? Why not?

@jakub007 : I don't have any blocks, just groups...


Today, I'll try recreating all the textures I used before - created in VRay 1.05 and imported in my current model - in VRay 1.5. This seems sometimes to be the solution. I'll let you know, later in the afternoon.

[renee81]

it will be in the next release,I guess,for now it is available in the nightly build.

[Helldoor]

So...

I've tried recreating the textures I used for my model, using the Material Editor in VRay 1.5.
It didn't help at all.

This are some points, I noticed, during my experiments:

1. Just having the old(imported) or new (recreated) materials in the Material Editor and afterwards saving, doesn't bring any difference to the file size. Applying the textures to the surfaces/solids in the rhino model however and saving afeterwards, increases the size drastically - the raw model (without applyed textures) had about 220 mb, after applying the textures it grew up to 1.230 mb...
2. One more thing, I noticed, during the process of texturing - the more complex a texture is (reflection, refraction, filter,..), the bigger the file size becomes after applying to the model.


Now I really don't know, how to get around this problem. What I surely know is, that it is none of a Render Options- or Old-1.05-Materials-Problem.
I'll be really glad, if you come up with any solution, folks.


And for those, who are interested, how the problematic scene finally developed. There, it is:


Greetz
Teo | Helldoor

[mgibeault]

Very nice render anyway Teo.
I hope they address this problem too, the project I'm working on will benefit greatly if it's repaired.

[Helldoor]

Thanks, mgibeault. I appreciate that.

By the way - here's the answer from fpedrogo on my question, in the original thread on this topic:

Hi
We know about this issue and we improved the way to handle the V-Ray materials. We are pretty close to release a new build of V-Ray for Rhino.

Best

Greetz
teo