Hi all. I can finally share with you our first pieces of work rendered with Vray. The main reason we chose to move to Vray for this project was because of Vray RT and it’s native support for geometry lights and the ability to interactively light the car using our light streak rig. (something not p…

Richard, cars looks great did u use carpaint shader or basic vray shader? cheers

Thanks Bazuka. I got to use the car paint shader for the shots thanks to its release in the nightly builds. I did not use the flakes element though just because I did not get time when testing the shader to experiment with that part. We could see we could get results we wanted without them so we di…

Hey Rich, good to see you here. How are you getting on with vray ?

Hey Rob. Yeah going ok. Trying to use it more at work. At the moment we seem to be doing projects of cars that we already have prepped for MR so quicker and easier with these to just stick with MR rather than move them to vray. But working on a portfolio piece for a photographer at the moment and …

well it works to an extent. I can catch the shadow fine but I want to project the backplate onto the ground plane so the car picks up the correct reflection from the ground. The plate being projected onto the ground plane should not pick up anymore light than it already has, so plugging it into the …

Right I think I see, I’ll have to set up a test and follow what you’ve said. If it is the case of it not working quite right, perhaps a new thread describing what you’ve said will help get it working like mip_matteshadow ?

There is this. http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?63888-Show-base-material-in-the-VRayMtlWrapper

Cool, there is also this as well: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?54515-proper-matteshadow-shader-accounting-for-correct-shadows-and-reflections

Very nice. Looks a bit like the Lexus ct here that I worked on.

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I thought that was working, with the material wrapper ?
If not, possible to post an example of what it’s doing in MR ?

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