Re: V-Ray Utilities 1.0 Released
First of all, thanks guys. This has been a while in the works, so I’m glad you guys like it.
I’ll take care of the easy ones first…Gjis, the guess vertical shift was changed. I had it wrong, so I just used the changes you made. I tested the the two versions, and mine was always just slightly over corrected. Its much better now. Thanks
Gjis: I do not have any control over settings in lights. Things like lights and materials were much more dicey to add scripting support to (all the utilities are scripts, in case you didn’t know), so hopefully that will be something that will be in the next round of additions.
Micha: I could make a button that saves the IM/LC and maybe even caustic solutions and sets them to from file. I’ll take a look again, but it may be something that might need to be set up before a rendering, but I’m not sure. Anyway, I would need to save them somewhere, so I was thinking in a “Light Maps” folder in the file path. That good?
Now for the hard one…the settings. As both of you know, there is more than one way to set up a successful v-ray rendering. I’m not saying that these are the best settings, or the most optimal, but they need to do what they say. I don’t actually recommend that anybody really use the high settings, but if some one does dare choose them, it better work no matter what kind of scene they have or are working with. Since I can’t mess with any materials, making changes based on what one might set in materials is not an option. Also, the settings have to show their value/worth no matter what the other settings are, so each of the different settings really have to stand on their own. The main basis for the settings were the presets that we ship with VfR, so that there would be a certain level of consistency between those visopts and using the quality settings (although not 100%).
These quality commands were really not set up for advanced users who have their own flavor of how they work with v-ray. They were meant more for the newer user to get their feet wet and not be overwhelmed by all of the different settings in the regular interface. They aren’t optimal, and they aren’t personal (I’m not using them), but if you’re just starting out using v-ray I imagine that they would be quite helpful.
To you guys I can offer a solution that will help with your workflows. Basically, it would be a custom implementation of the quality settings that would be able to be personalized to the settings you would like. So all you would have to do is make 5 visopts…one that had AA, Primaries, and Secondaries at a Low Level, then a separate at a Medium Low level, and so on up to High. Then you would read in those visopts and the command would be customized to what you loaded. So you would set it up once, and have your own personal quick set quality levels. And you could change them down the line if you wanted to as well. Does that sound good?
Lastly, Gjis, the scroll thing. Do you mind posting a screen shot of that? Also, what screen resolution are you using? and do you have the latest RhinoScript release (if you have SR3 than you should be good)?
Thanks again guys.
