I’m trying to wrap my head around vray environment fog. I’ve read the docs, but while they explain all the parameters they don’t really discuss the most basic stuff like how to hook up the nodes. Environment Fog. I finally figured out that I should check “Use environment volume” in the render setti…

[image] render nodes - failed to receive irradiance map (3) error I finally figured out that I should check “Use environment volume” in the render settings and hook up a VRay Environment Fog. Thanks, we should really add this to the help index :slight_smile: 1. If I set for distance to 10, s…

Awesome, thanks Vlado. I could have sworn I tried the fog nodes as volume shaders and it didn’t work, hence the question. I’ll give it another go. Regarding the “air bubble”, do you mean something such as making a sphere (or whatever) a child of the camera using the same material as is attached to t…

[image] VRayMtlWrapper visible in renders? Regarding the “air bubble”, do you mean something such as making a sphere (or whatever) a child of the camera using the same material as is attached to the fog object? and it will sort of negate/boolean the fog when the camera+bubble combo is inside the …

[image] Vray and 32 cores You can put them as a volume shader in the material of the respective objects. Best regards, Vlado A quick follow up to this. Do you mean, for instance, to drop a VRaySimpleFog into the Volume material of the Shading Group? I can’t seem to get this to work. Any chan…

Here is a very simple example scene. VRaySimpleFog.zip (6.95 KB)

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corestudio November 28, 2012, 8:57pm 5

A quick follow up to this. Do you mean, for instance, to drop a VRaySimpleFog into the Volume material of the Shading Group? I can’t seem to get this to work. Any chance you have a simple scene around where I can see the connections?

thanks

-gary

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