This question has probably been answered a million times - please bear with me - I have had Vray for a couple of months but haven’t done an animation using GI before. My scene is of a house exterior. I calculated a photon global photon map using the very high Irradiance map preset. I saved the map at the end of the calculation - things looked great in the still frame but when I try to render (using a renderfarm at work) things looked pretty bad, splothes and black area’s. I know is is probably one of those cases where I should post a scene but is there something more obvious that I am missing. Has anybody got a good tutorial to do GI animation - I did the Study Hall tutorial from Vray info, but it didn’t mention anything about animation render settings.
Thanks for your patience - I’m working off about 2 hours of sleep in last 4 days.
Basically what you need to do is set your irr map to Incremental add and render your scene every 15 or so frame’s …without rendering … what this is doing is saving your irr map every 15th frame so its making a complete map for your fly-through…then switch back to every frame …and render the final animation from your saved map … hope this makes sense .. its late here and im off to bed .. … have a look on vray info site .. there is a better explaination there
Thanks for your speedy reply - I’m going to have to take some time to figure this out - it seems a little more complicated then I thought. The project I am doing is due tomorrow so it isn’t really the best time for me to be experimenting. Pity as the GI on single frames looks so sweet ( daylight with standard rendering methods just blows ), it will change my life once I know how to make GI work for animation.
If you come across a post or tutorial in the meantime I’d very much appreciate it if you could spin it my way.
Thanks Natty I found what I am looking for - well almost I just need to streamline my process abit, but I get it.
What’s the weather like over in merry old England, I’m from Dublin, been here six years - you start to forget that seasons are - I don’t miss the rainy summer days though.
