That’s something where I aim I originally wanted to study imported materials, however I cant import them for some reason. The render looks really good and render time is awesome. now I can do this kind of renders, time 6m01s. I watched 3dmax/Maya Vray tutorials because render settings are almost exactly the same, but 3dmax Dome light is Blender Hemi light etc. Though within Blender it probably isn’t quite as powerful given Blender’s lack of custom node support and stuff.I know your feelings very well, so many settings and no good examples how to do things and I was the same situation like you, eyes needed better results than brute force noise machine results. The exporter is very usable in my opinion. Overall, I think Andrey has done a great job, having tackled a project like this by himself. The forum isn’t exactly hopping with activity either, but you can usually get some good answers on it, and it already contains much useful information. If you have a link or something, I’d like to see it.Īs for development speed, I think it might be a stretch to say that it is fast, but it does seem steady. In fact, render layers are probably something that Vray doesn’t support, not the exporter. It has tons of render passes that you can activate though (far more than Blender…). Second, I don’t think render layers are supported. Last I heard, Andrey (the exporters developer) is still working on it. I haven’t personally tried it so take what you want from that. You are able to turn it on and use it, but apparently only with simple scenes and not to easily.

To address a couple more issues… Vray RT is sort of supported right now. For me, after I had demoed it, I simply went and bought a copy of just the Standalone because it is far cheaper (and I probably won’t own Maya for a long time… if ever). If you have a full copy of Vray for Maya you are probably good to go. I don’t know why I would be different if you buy it. The Standalone was contained in it and it worked perfectly. To demo Vray, I simple downloaded Vray for Maya Demo. As for the getting the standalone, I don’t see what is difficult. Blender’s Python also doesn’t let you make your own custom nodes, so Vray’s support of the node editor is rather limited. For instance, some of Vray’s textures could greatly benefit from being able to specify a custom gradient for them, but you can’t because Blender’s Python doesn’t let you make your own custom gradient controls in the UI. That said, it does suffer from Blender’s incomplete integration of python scripting. I have been able to translate nearly every tutorial for Maya, or whatever, to Blender. First, I think that the integration is very well done. Thought I’d chime in since I own Vray Standalone and have used it quite a bit.

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