Deactivating Render Elements

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
1

hi!

Is there a possibility to temporarily deactivate an render element? The AO takes long to render and I would like to just deactivate for test rendering without deleting it.

cheers
fikret

2

Hello,

You can turn off all elements with the “Elements Active” checkbox and if you want to turn off individual elements - you can use their “vrayVFB” checkbox:

Best regards,
Yavor

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3

Heh I asked that like 2 days ago o.O

Can Vray maybe take the Max Enabled tick instead of overriding it with his own or its too max bound ?

Could save some duplicate threads o.O

4

Thank you Yavor for the answer.
But turning the AOV off with vrayVFB doesnt prevent it from being calculated. And I would need the other AOVs, so turning off Elements Active doesnt help.

5

That is strange - in my simple tests turning off with the vrayVFB checkbox works as expected.

Can you share a simplified scene in which it doesn’t?

Best regards,
Yavor

6

You are right it works, thank you Yavor!

7

this might also help:

:wink:

8

O man you are a legend! Thanks!

I spend around 1-2h the other day on dealing with state sets and render elements. This would’ve been 5 min job with this script! Thanks buddy!

9

you can actually create a scripted state which turns off render elements per state. But really, I would love to have this option working with state sets in regular render elements tab as it should.

10

Thank you very much Henning, thats a very useful script!

11

I take this back, actually state sets now support vray vfb on / off by default!