My VrayForRhino features requests

[Grigio18]

Hello everyone!

I haven't been using VrayForRhino in production for a few years now, since 2019 I've been using Max+Vray.

I have continued to use It from time to time and have always tested new versions, but from this month I will start teaching a Product Rendering with Vfr course at a private university, so I will be more present on the forum and will probably storm you with requests for improvements and bug fixes.

I would like to point out a couple of really key missing features, especially for integration with a very product design related software like rhino:

- eye dropper is missing in color picker:
In 2023 it is inexcusable, also because rhino 7 has a very good color picker with eye dropper, I remember me asking this in the past and you told me that it was not easy to implement but please find a way to make it work as soon as possible.

- light option include exclude: this option is so useful and saves so much time that I think it should be on the top of your priority list.

- Slate Material editor:
I hope you are working on this, this is also a key element, the material editor however improved in the latest versions is light years less effective when it comes to understanding how a material is structured, and this is doubly important when you have to teach it.

- Renders Setting by default different from V-ray for max:
Can you explain me why in Vfr GI reflective caustics are turned off by default?
Why is the allow interactive light cache option off in ipr?
also the noise limit values are different , same thing for light cache and surely other that i don't remember now.

I'll stop here for now, but over the next three months as I progress through the course I will update you on issues that come up.

Best

[Micha]

I also always feel like I'm using ancient software when I have to take color values from standard palettes on the internet like RAL or NCS. Always remember the values individually R and G and B and enter them manually. There is a nice compact hex value to copy, but the chaos group refuses to accept this value. At least this was the case with my request a few months ago. Could the hex value maybe get a chance?

An eye dropper could perhaps already help here.

[Grigio18]

I revive this old thread I made,
Just to ask a couple of questions after the release of update 1 :

I am really happy that we are getting closer to the basic settings we have in 3dsmax, so that the results are 99% comparable, for example the active light cache in ipr is a big step forward...

About that I would like to understand why reflection caustics under gi caustics is off by default.
In max it is on.
I remember in the past keeping it off because it increased the noise quite a bit, without making a huge change to the end result, but in the spirit of being able to switch smoothly and without having to debug scenes every time to figure out the differences, I think it would be time to have really identical basic settings.:

I don't want to be mean, just take it as a fun joke but I have the feeling that you keep thinking of the users of Vray for rhino as beginners and incompetents; the very fact of having a hdr in the environment turned on by default is the most glaring example, are you afraid that seeing the black render might make them desist from buying the software?
I would rather try to standardize the basic settings in each version of vray, and at worst I would plan to put pop-up messages in case you launch a render without lights in the scene, it would make much more sense.