VRay Automator v0.9...! :)

I just can’t stop scriptin’…! :slight_smile:

Get it here:
http://www.metinseven.com/menu\_goodies.htm

Lemme know your ideas, comments, suggestions, feedback, praise, the works!

Cheers,

Metin

VERY WELL¡¡
Its wonderfull Metin,thanks :smile:
My suggestion
Add reflection and refraction interpolation
Add store with irradiance map and smooth surface shadows
Very times i have to change all this values
And please can you do some lightlistener to all vraylights that include all parameters? I saw one but not all parameters
Very thanks and GREAT WORK¡¡ :smile:

Thanks a lot Didjaja!

Your feedback is also much appreciated, although I’d like to wait a little until I’ve got more feedback from the others about the things everyone would like to see added and/or changed, because if I include all of the mentioned options, the script would become too extensive. I’d like to filter out the not really necessary, not really often used properties of the VRay materials and lights. Of course each of you will use other parameters more often than the other, but I’d like to have a top five of most used properties that are still missing in the script.

So please give me more feedback, guys! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Metin

P.S.: Didjaja, what sort of light lister functions would you like to see added to the script?

Well Metin,in materials i would like to see added:
Glossys interpolation,reflect and refract
And in vraylight:
skylight portal
store with irradiance map
Only this :smile:
Very thanks for this fantastic work Metin :smile:

Thanks again for your kind words. :slight_smile:

Ok, what we’ve got so far:

:arrow: Materials: the glossy interpolation stuff.

:arrow: Lights: skylight portal and store with Irradiance Map.

:arrow: Smooth surface shadows

Anyone else?

Thanks ‘n’ cheers,

Metin

Vray light

“Smooth surface shadows”

Thanks, added it to the list, although as far as I know the Smooth Surface Shadows option is not completely correct yet, or is it, Vlado? I’ve used it in the past and discovered that it can also cause artifacts in stead of smoothing them.

But maybe this will have changed in 1.1 and if Vlado didn’t change VRay’s MAXScript properties, the script will also work with 1.1.

Keep those wishes coming guys. I’m planning on improving the script this weekend.

Cheerio,

Metino

By the way, what do you think is more useful…?

- Keeping the toggle method for the checkbox switching.

Advantage: invert a selection all at once, for example turning off one array of lights and turning the others on with one click.

Disadvantage: If you want to turn everything off, you’ll have to select the ones that are on and press the Toggle Selected button, in stead of simply switching all lights off with one click.

- Changing the checkbox switching to On (all or selected) and Off (all or selected).

Advantage: more control, so you can switch a whole array on or off without having to select the objects that have their checkbox on or off first.

Disadvantage: no more toggling to invert all checkbox states with a single click.

Of course I could insert both methods, but that would be a little bit too much I guess. Personally I tend to prefer the second method, but please tell me what you think.

Thanks and cheers,

Metin

I like the 2nd method

Ok, thanks. I’ll go for the 2nd method. Any more wishes concerning VRay automation, anyone? Or is my script simply perfect? :wink: … or … totally superfluous? :cry:

Cheers,

M7

Ok, the On and Off approach is implemented in the latest version: 0.6. Reload this page to refresh the screenshot above.

I hope to add more soon.

Cheers,

M7

hmm u trying to get into good books of santa tis year :stuck_out_tongue:

good job dude …very much appreciated

ps: am gonna download it now :slight_smile:

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Reload this page in your browser for an update of the screenshot above. Version 0.8 features VRay light color and all VRay material interpolation options.

Cheers,

Metin

VERY VERY VERY GOOOOOODDD¡¡¡¡
Its super useful Metin :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
I would like to see in vralight parameters
Option skylight portal
Option store with irradiance map
Difuse subdivs (numer of photons)
With this,your script will be PERFECT for me :smile: :smile: :smile:
Very thanks again Metin and again,GREAT WORK¡¡ :smile:

Thanks very much Didjaja! :slight_smile:

To be honest I think that the Skylight Portal isn’t a checkbox you want to turn on or off in a lot of lights all at once. When you create a light you usually decide if its function is to guide the outside light into a room or if it is a direct light in the room itself.

The Store with Irradiance Map might be more useful in the script, but personally I almost never use it, because it tends to make the light’s cast shadows dirty, because of the Irradiance Map reducing the shadow quality. Or am I maybe doing something wrong there?

I think adding Diffuse Subdivs is a fine suggestion. It will be easier to do it with the Automator than to first open the render dialog, scroll down to the System section, open the Object/Light settings dialog, setting the value(s) etc.. I’ll add that in the next update, if the Diffuse Subdivs has its own MAXScript property.

Thanks again for your feedback. I wish more VRayers would give their opinion about the script.

Cheers,

Metin

Well Metin
store with irradiance map is very useful when you have very lights,its very faster and you can increase vralight subdivs to have more quality.For me is very important and i use very much
Thanks :smile:

Ok, you convinced me. :slight_smile: Maybe tonight I’ll work on a new update.

Hey Vlado, if you want me to script VRay version 1.2, just let me know, okay? :wink: :wink: :wink:

Cheerio,

Metino

Vlado, are the parameters from the Object and Light Settings dialog accessible from MAXScript? Getpropnames vray doesn’t show a diffuse depth property and changing the values in the dialog doesn’t show anything in the listener.

Thanks and cheers,

Metin

Ok, I now know how to access the render dialog system light settings properties from MAXScript (thanks Vlado) and will update the VRay Automator this weekend. Stay tuned to http://www.metinseven.com/menu\_goodies.htm. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Autometin 8)

P.S.: Didjaja, check out version 0.85 containing the Store with irr. map option (reload this page for an interface screenshot update).