Michas Wishlist

[Micha_cg]

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Joe, I changed my texture archive last, and today the prgress window show me, that some textures are not load. I copy the textures to the project dir with the rhino file, but the progress window says again .. . So I set all paths, but the progress window .. . I'm not sure which material miss a texture and I don't see a missing texture at the rendering. I will observe it.

Maybe you could make, that materials with missing textures are marked at the mat editor. If I remember me right, this is an old wish. You could use the blue points at the beginning of each material name and mark it red instead blue.

[Travis Serio_cg]

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You could use the blue points at the beginning of each material name and mark it red instead blue.

great idea!

[joe_b]

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Yep - that is a good idea.

[Micha_cg]

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Next wish: don't affect GI for emitter materials.

Example: I'm working on a TV panel and the plastic frame should show an reflection at the front. If I add an emitter with a gradient texture, I get the reflection, but also the light from the emitter. Could be nice, if the emitter could act like the reflection environment, that don't affect the lighting, but the reflections.

[Travis Serio_cg]

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that would be nice. I render an emitter as a white card and save it on all black as an hdr file. Load the hdr of the emitter into the objects background material over ride =) this works. All of the reflections without the GI.

[Micha_cg]

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I tested this way too, but for my last project I needed a sharp edge of a plane with a gradient. I rendered a large HDRI, but the edge of the shown "emitter plane" was pixelated.

Interesting that you are fighting with the same problems.

[Travis Serio_cg]

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bend the emitter surface like this. it helps with the pixelation and sharp edges. Then take your hdr saved from vfr and apply a blur to it in HDR Shop. it will look sexy then ;D

[Micha_cg]

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Interesting, I will try it. But the HDRShop blur isn't good for me, because I like to get a sharp edge of the emitter. A better example: the emitter is a textured emitter and should be visible at reflections, but don't send light. If I would create a HDR env from the scene, than it's difficult to get a sharp reflection of the emitter texture, the HDR must be very, very large.

[Micha_cg]

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Often, if my camera shot images from different views, than I need that the HDRI environment is turned too. For example because I want to get the main light source from the right side allways.

My wish is, that one gobal rotation control allow to turn all environments. I attached a screenshot. I think, the vertical rotation is not need realy, but it was so easy to copy it in to screenshot. A horicontal rotation could be good.

At the moment, if I jump from one to an other camera view, often I must change the rotation of the GI env and the reflection env. That are many mouse clicks, less could be nice.

[Micha_cg]

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A long time I try to keep my lights so physical correct as possible, but today I render a very small room with one light at the ceiling, in the upper part to much light, in the lower part to less. I try "no decay" - ok, more light everywhere. But best would be to get something between. From other engines I know, that three types could be possible - linear, inverse and square inverse. Could be nice to get this at VfR too. (Maybe this could be done with a single decay parameter from linear 0 to inverse square 2.)

[dalomar_cg]

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hmmm...I think thats something for vlado...all we do is pass those values off to vray, so its not like we can set that or something...I think it might be nice though.

[Micha_cg]

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At the moment I use two lights - one with decay and the other without - and adjust both for the right look. Works quite good for now.

[Micha_cg]

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Please add the missing material options Roughness and Anisotropie Map.

http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150R....htm#roughness

[fanlynne]

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Hey,is there anybody from China?

[pickinboy]

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any chance of getting a beta test? (pretty please)

my wish would be ability to save out VRay materials as 'approximate' shaders so other renderers can at least do a better job. It takes some time and effort to 'setup' a scene material wise.

This is not to replace VfR - but sometimes in a time crunch for a single product studio shot (as in next hour) we go to Keyshot. Keyshot isn't handling the full interior - VfR will be for foreseeable future - but having them play nice together would really help....

Also having the ability to 'edit' Wavefront files - would be cool too - as a kind of 3D model 'render' library - all setup to go.