Tag Archives: vray

splutterfish offers free materials

nice. splutterfish finally offers now a gallery of materials where portrayed materials can be freely downloaded from their website to be used with their flagship product brazil r/s v2. definitely an added value for the users of this product …

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vray manual: update

i was just surprised that the manual of vray 1.5 has just been updated (17 september 2007) and has a lot of new details which has been added to cover the recently released final version of this great rendering …

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highly detailled surfaces with vray iso

dieter morgenroth is working on a vray based plugin to be used in 3ds max which allows you to create highly detailled surfaces in a very easy way and keeping the mesh simple. combined with some special shaders (like …

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zdepth problems in combustion with vray rendered images

do you experience problems with fuzzy edges when you use vray as your rendering system to channel the zdepth to use an rpf image in combustion? here’s help: first, turn on the ‘enable filtering’ check box for the zdepth …

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1-2-3 opacity mapping with vray

there’s a very easy way to render an opacity map using an existing scene. take the following steps: go to the global switches of the vray renderer in the rendering settings, then click on override material, choose vraylightmtl and …

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vray special effect: rasterize material

man, i didn’t even think about that such a special effect material is possible to do when rendering with vray – i normally see such raster effects in compositing software or as plugins in image editing packages. really nice …

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Shadow Matte with V-Ray

Small tutorial how to create a Shadow Matte material within 3ds Max with V-Ray. Continue reading

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