Grant Warwick- Mastering Vray: Material Ideas Needed.

[fraggle]

Thanks Grant,

The 2014 scene is useless because the last Berconmap (3.03) is not compatible with 2014 (at least on my side)!

[Sliver_Creations]

@pierrot2

Thanks Grant,

The 2014 scene is useless because the last Berconmap (3.03) is not compatible with 2014 (at least on my side)!

It’s compatible here on my side. Test render is made in Max 2014.

[tricky]

Yep - Bercon works fine with 2014.

[fraggle]

@glorybound

Yep - Bercon works fine with 2014.

@nights

It’s compatible here on my side. Test render is made in Max 2014.

Oh, my mistake, put it under AutoCAD plug and not under max. Thanks for the info.

[glorybound]

works fine here, too. Although the installer says 2013, it works on 2014 just fine.

[grantwarwick]

@Neilg

Checked out the materials, they look pretty sweet!
I already picked up a new trick (*hint ironman mtl blend amounts)

That said, these are definitely for studio type product renders or similar scenarios. Not for the typical “I want it fast, cheap and yesterday” archviz scenes Not that this is unexpected or unwelcome, of course.
The material editor is crawling as well (would be great if it was possible in vray to set lower subdivs for mat previews, like in corona)

anyway, good job I can already see how to apply your techniques to different materials, even without the videos

I have a request for future releases - fabrics. These can be ‘GW_Caramel base diffuse map’ at times. I have worked out a couple different approaches that work well most of the time, but it would be great to see how someone else approaches the subject. Obviously I don’t mean only your basic plain cotton, but stuff like regular/crushed velvet, velour, satin, silk damask, silk moire, etc

Thanks mate, fabrics are coming, I’ve actually done some pretty insane tests but I’m still perfecting the technique. haven’t worked on them in a while though. I’ll see if I can get some tests together again.

@Dana_Arts

Thanks Viscorbel for mentioning the crawling in ME - and I concur with your points regarding that and not wanting it “fast/cheap/yesterday”.

This morning I tried the car paint material in my studio scene and it couldn’t handle it - my (now old and soon to be retired) machine was taking forever to render. For me right now (until I get my new up-to-date machine), Grant’s great work will be for learning only at this current moment in time.

I do however have a general question - and as is usually *my* style, I typically think it is something I am not understanding (and that I simply don’t know or doubt myself) - but the Material Ball in the scene is, to my view, quite large (if I remember rightly, 50cm in diameter at least) - the materials for me in the scene (say taking red car paint or the blue metal paint as examples), don’t look right for that sphere/ball, yet if I put in front of that Material Ball a teapot (of regular, realworld teapot size) and apply those materials - they look great :).

Any explanation ?

Hey mate, which car paint?

@vlado

Everything is working GREAT! Had to make a few adjustments to my “Basic” Scene. As render times skyrocketed but it’s working now WITH my settings
Tnx for your great work!

Be careful with the adjustments you make, can you let me know what you changed?

Thanks all for your feedback, new version is uploading now.

[squintnic]

going to delve into these next week
thanks g

[grantwarwick]

Apparently one user is already planning to release the content to the warez community hahaha absolutely fucking ruthless!

Anyways, just in case you guys see this shit pop up online, just know, it won’t effect my plans however I didn’t expect anyone to be so cold as to do something like that within 24 hours of the first test release
especially considering I’ve put hundreds of hours back into helping the community with free tutorials.

All good, life go’s on, lets do this!

[Mokiki]

Aww, that sucks to hear “I mean the warez thing not that you will continue with your plans.”

[Donald2B]

Pretty sad considering it’s one of 50 people from here.

I would have thought that being a more professional group it wouldn’t have happened quite so fast.

I appreciate the efforts you have put in and will continue to financially support this effort!

[DaveKW]

Seriously?!? WTF? We’ll if you know who this person is, at least you can exclude them from any future updates to keep the pirated content to a minimum.

[JezUK]

Wow, that does suck…as already said, someone off of here too…

[grantwarwick]

@t.petrov

Seriously?!? WTF? We’ll if you know who this person is, at least you can exclude them from any future updates to keep the pirated content to a minimum.

We all knew it was coming

I think I know who it is but will find out officially.

[glorybound]

That’s awful! I think we hunt the person down and publicly humiliate them.

[grantwarwick]

@voltron7

That’s awful! I think we hunt the person down and publicly humiliate them.

That does sound fun, but we’ve all done it before so whatever.
I appreciate the support I’ve gotten and will continue to work hard to show that.

[Mokiki]

If you need a hug I’m sure we can organize something.

[glorybound]

funny! Big hug for Grant[quote=“nikand, post:23, topic:43300, username:nikand”]
If you need a hug I’m sure we can organize something.
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[RockinAkin]

Yeah, that’s shitty to hear - at least you can hopefully block them from further updates.

[grantwarwick]

@raistlin

Yeah, that’s shitty to hear - at least you can hopefully block them from further updates.

I’m a pretty solid boxer, maybe I should offer the warez community free updates if they select a champion to go 5 rounds with me.

[squintnic]

thats shit.
and its someone thats bothered to pay for vray and your work…then pass it on
:bash: