Render Effects support

[dans]

I would like to see render effect support vor V-Ray RT. Currently all render effects are completely ignored.

Because of this psd-manager currently can not save a PSD file when rendering using V-Ray RT (I have some customers asking for this). The usual system notifications that could help with a workaround (e.g. NOTIFY_POST_RENDERFRAME) are also not sent to render effects.

Thank you,
Daniel

[vlado]

You mean when V-Ray RT is used as the production renderer?

Best regards,
Vlado

[dans]

You mean when V-Ray RT is used as the production renderer?

Yes.

Daniel

[vlado]

Ok, will see what can be done about it. Currently we are not sending any render notifications; we probably should.

Best regards,
Vlado

[eyepiz]

I would like to see render effect support vor V-Ray RT. Currently all render effects are completely ignored.

+1 for this...I use psd-manager on all my work.

[dans]

Ok, will see what can be done about it. Currently we are not sending any render notifications; we probably should.

Best regards,
Vlado

Any update on this, from my test this hasn't changed in the last 2 years?

Daniel

[Svetlozar Draganov]

I'm afraid we haven't done any improvements into that direction.
Would you like to increase the priority of this feature request?
Is this feature extremely important for your workflow?

[dans]

I'm afraid we haven't done any improvements into that direction.
Would you like to increase the priority of this feature request?
Is this feature extremely important for your workflow?

Yes, yes - as the Developer of psd-manager I would be happy to support saving all the V-ray RT render elements to PSD just like for the regular V-ray renderer. psd-manager is a render effect to support saving in parallel to any other image format like vrimg (and to provide a permanent place for the UI).

Daniel

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Thanks for the feedback.
The priority of the issue has been increased.

[dans]

Ok, will see what can be done about it. Currently we are not sending any render notifications; we probably should.

Best regards,
Vlado

3 years later, still no render notifications in V-Ray RT - I just tested again using 3.6. (and even Octane has render notifications now). I can work around not having support for render effects, but not having no notifications. I'm surprised this isn't breaking compatibility with more plugins and scripts. For example the following MAXScript callbacks alll do not work with RT as production renderer as a result.

--MAXScript for testing (run once):
callbacks.addScript #preRender "messageBox("preRender")"
callbacks.addScript #preRenderFrame "messageBox("preRenderFrame")"
callbacks.addScript #postRender "messageBox("postRender")"
callbacks.addScript #postRenderFrame "messageBox("postRenderFrame")"

Daniel