Hello, I’m using Vray 3.05.04 (api version 201400) in Maya 2014 Linux. Working with some high resolution (2mil+ faces) multi-object models, where most meshes are attached to a shared subdivision set, but some are not meant to be smoothed, when generating a proxy and rendering that proxy, subdivisi…

Hi David, I will try to help you out. One option is to use the export option “Export each selected option in a separate file”. Then you can add subdivision as usual (attrubutes->VRay->Subdivision..) to the nodes, that you want. In this case the subdivision will be performed at render time. Another …

Hello Asen, Thank you for the reply and help. So, I’ve tried both things, and this is where I am (they aren’t working for me at the moment). In the first case, I tried doing the “export each selected item in a separate file” in a small test scene with a cube, sphere, and cone. It indeed does wor…

Hi David, First concerning the alembic method, unfortunately the materials won’t be reassigned and you have to do it manually. Maybe me have to look for a way to do it automatically, but currently we don’t have this option. Probably the problem with the vrmesh approach is that you have to write hu…

Hi Asen, Well, while using two separate exports per item could be a forced workaround, that really won’t work with what we’re doing as the whole idea is to have a single proxy for each car in our scene that can be subbed out with different proxies as needed for the requirements of the production. …

Thanks so much, I appreciate it. I know this will come up again and I definitely want to be able to take advatange of the proxy system on scenes with hundreds of large models (cars and such) in giant crowds, and be able to maintain my pre-setup subdivision and displacement sets. -David

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asen.atanasov January 20, 2015, 8:36am 6

Hi David,

I understand and we will discuss what would be the best solution.

Best regards,
Asen

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