I have a problem when using VRay Lens Effects: I turn it On, and turn “Bloom” and “Glare” Off (to have a clean of any effect render). Once the render is done, I turn “Bloom” On and then click on the “Update Effect” as shown in Vlado’s Youtube Video … and the renderer starts all the job again ! (Irr map, Light cache …). I have to mention here that VRay Lens Effects works fine with a complete new scene, and that this problem only happens when used with an old mental ray scene, converted into vray scene using the “vrayscene converter” option.
Anyone can help me please ?
Thank you a lot
I have this problem too sometimes.
And sometimes after calculating lens effects rendered images gets brighter but effect didnt show up. But only sometimes too.
Is it possible that in the meantime you have accidentally done changes to the scene (e.g. changing some geometry, or a parameter value somewhere, or selecting objects etc)?
I do have sometimes the same problem hapenning: before rendering, I first set a “VRay Lens Effects” in the “Environment and Effects” Tab and check it is active. I set both “Glare” and “Bloom” inactive. I hit render. When it’s done, I activate “Glare” and click on “Update Effect”: the effect shows up on the render window, that’s fine. But, sometimes, at this point, when I deactivate “Glare” and click on “Update Effect” again, the effect doesn’t go off … And when I activate it and update the effect again, the image gets even brighter just as said Jiri.Matys I didn’t have the time to do a lot of tests. It only happened sometimes.
i get this problem constantly!!!
Lens effects active, applies the effect upon render end.
after that i hit update effect (checking interactive or not doesnt matter)
and it starts recalculating the whole image!
Drives me nuts…its completely useless…i get it with every scene..no matter if i restart max or not..:-/
Is there any update on this bug?
Me too think it is useless: I stopped using it.
It is strange because some users seem to use it without any problems …
It would be nice to have a ChaosGroup feedback about it.
I have this problem too. I find out, first open the effect tab where lens effects are. Click on it to see the parameters, dont change anything. Now hit F9, render a frame and now change anything from previous opened effects tab. It works.
I dont know how it works exactly, but maybe it use another information from the scene, not only how bright is the pixel, but the reflection, glossiness, dont know.
just wanted to point out that my scenes keep re-rendering too, i just can´t get them to update instead of doing that. this way the effects are kind of useless, at least to me, because you can´t do any tweaking without wasting half a day waiting for test-renders.
anyone using those lens effects without troubles? the tip of jiri didn´t work for me… or maybe i got it wrong, how did you do it exactly jiri?
you need to keep the effects tab open, this way youll be able to work on it interactively after rendering…this works for me
stil kinda sad the vrimg cant be loaded into vfb and apply the effects at any given time such as you can see that fryrender works …oh well…priority is elsewhere in vray (which i understand)…i guess we will have to either wait or do without
thanks for the clearing up martin! but nope, this doesn´t work for me, i mean keeping the effects tab open… too bad! i have those tabs open almost all the time on my second monitor, but tried it once again to no avail after your tip. in my case it always seems to rerender the scene. maybe the next update, keeping fingers crossed as i would really love to use those effects.
