Solid Rocks

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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Have you guys checked out SolidRocks? I just bought a copy and it looks like it’ll be a great addition to my v-ray tool set. Here is the link:

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I’ve got it , too, but it doesn’t seem to cooperate with SP2, yet.
Well I just saw there is now an update that supports SP1…

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Sp2

Mine does. I had to e-mail the developer and once he verified my payment he gave me download rights to the latest build. It works like a charm for me. I am running MAX 2009 with v-ray 1.5 SP2.

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in the forum I downloaded b046 and it’s working fine with sp2, even Vray I.E.S. lights.

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Solid Rock

Yep… SolidRocks Beta 0.46 here. I am liking it. It even supports the LWF

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It all sounds a bit too good to be true. Is it intended for the ‘absolute novice’ then?

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SoldRock

I’ll record my screen and post it shortly.

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http://www.whitebirchstudios.com/public\_share/solidrock/SolidRock.html

Running to lunch… I hope this works.

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This is the first I’ve heard of this. Bobby you seem pretty happy with it. Anyone else finding it useful. It’s cheap enough just to give it a try.

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I don’t use it for final rendering, but the good thing about this plugin is that you can easily test setups and see how it works in your scene (AA on details, speed differences, lighting speed, etc). From there on you can finetune. It’s actually a good VRay Learning Tool…

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use it for a while now, it’s easy end fast
and ik cost almost nothing. there mini render window is greta value for fast preview renders.
With the knowlege i have now i by it again great value for the price a must have.

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What does the optimise materials and lights functions do ?

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Optimize

It optimizes the light subdivisions. It is temporary and when you finish your render it’ll set it back.

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Works great! Providing me with a lot of insight into some things that I simply just ignored up til now.

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My colleague just got it. I think I’ll try it out once he’s done with his current job to see how it works. He seems enthousiastic about it.

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I haven’t tried it yet, but I must say,I’d like to keep control over my settings.
Besides, for any scene I just load the preset I created, perhaps change the LC settings, and that’s it…easy enough to me…

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Solid Rock

Solid Rocks changes settings that are optimal to the rendering resolution. It changes setting that I would never have thought of changing. Once you run Solid Rocks you can tweak further in the rendering setup.

The preview is wonderful… it shows you what is over exposed so you can quickly tweak your v-ray camera. Very cool!