Vray Volume Shader - Enviroment Fog\Fume FX look

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Hey gang,
I used to love Afterburn, but it’s dated and not as useful anymore. I love the shading of Fume FX (smoke not fire) however, I don’t always want fume simulations and often want to use particles or meshes. I came across Binary Alchemy volume shaders for mental ray, but they don’t seem to work for max.

I get the impression that vray enviroment fog can do all this, but I can’t seem to get a very realistic look out of it. Does anyone have an example scenes that i could look at? Also, is there any plans on supporting particles a bit better?

Fred

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There are some example scenes in the V-Ray help index here: Chaos: Industry-leading design and visualization software

There are plans to expand support for particles, yes.

Best regards,
Vlado

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If you’re going to use Vray Lights or Standard Lights with VRayEnvironmentFog, try increasing the light intensity to extremely high numbers if you do not see anything. I’ve noticed I had to use 20,000 on my VRayLight’s Multiplier when I was testing. Just a tip.