Chaos group has just released V-Ray 3.5 for MODO, and it comes with some important updates one of which includes an increased rendering power. The update includes support for MODO 11 and is free for V-Ray 3.x for MODO customers. From now til June 23rd, you can save 20% on new seats of V-Ray for MODO. You can visit their website for more details.
Chaos group has just released V-Ray 3.5 for MODO, and it comes with some important updates one of which includes an increased rendering power. The update includes support for MODO 11 and is free for V-Ray 3.x for MODO customers. From now til June 23rd, you can save 20% on new seats of V-Ray for MODO. You can visit their website for more details.
DGDM has released SliB Match 1.0, the plugin for maya which mathematically calculates the camera viewpoint of a given background image and creates an oriented maya camera that's position and field of view perfectly match the perspective of the background image. This allows to place 3D objects inside your maya scene as if they were part of the background image.
Some Features of SLiB Match: • intuitive gui • Save/load vanishing line positions for later use • create camera projection shader with a single click • one-click texture baking [Redshift only] • RenderZoom function
DGDM has released SliB Match 1.0, the plugin for maya which mathematically calculates the camera viewpoint of a given background image and creates an oriented maya camera that's position and field of view perfectly match the perspective of the background image. This allows to place 3D objects inside your maya scene as if they were part of the background image.
Some Features of SLiB Match: • intuitive gui • Save/load vanishing line positions for later use • create camera projection shader with a single click • one-click texture baking [Redshift only] • RenderZoom function
The Siger Studio’s SIGERSHADERS V-Ray Material Presets Pro is a Plugin – powerful material collection for Autodesk 3ds Max and V-Ray rendering engine + User Library material lab/manager. The collection consists different categories of materials: Metal, Ceramic, Leather, Stone, Concrete, Glass, etc… The list of materials permanently grows. V-Ray Material Presets Pro v4.2.0 for 3ds Max 2013 – 2018 is now available.
• 979 V-Ray material presets and templates. • Compatible with SolidRocks. • User Material Library manager – fast material management. • Assign materials to single/multiple selected objects/groups directly. • Assign to material editor active (selected) slots. • Render material preview (single/category). • Material Lab. • High resolution seamless textures (4K and up). • Real-World Scale materials. • The list of content grows permanently. • Friendly and simple interface. • Useful for V-Ray newbies, average and power users.
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Upgrade V-Ray Material Presets Pro v4.2.0 for €60.00 or get New License for €195.00 ( 10% discount starting from quantity of 2 Licenses )
The product is compatible with 3ds Max 2013 – 2018 | V-Ray 3.4 and above | 64 bit.
The Siger Studio’s SIGERSHADERS V-Ray Material Presets Pro is a Plugin – powerful material collection for Autodesk 3ds Max and V-Ray rendering engine + User Library material lab/manager. The collection consists different categories of materials: Metal, Ceramic, Leather, Stone, Concrete, Glass, etc… The list of materials permanently grows. V-Ray Material Presets Pro v4.2.0 for 3ds Max 2013 – 2018 is now available.
• 979 V-Ray material presets and templates. • Compatible with SolidRocks. • User Material Library manager – fast material management. • Assign materials to single/multiple selected objects/groups directly. • Assign to material editor active (selected) slots. • Render material preview (single/category). • Material Lab. • High resolution seamless textures (4K and up). • Real-World Scale materials. • The list of content grows permanently. • Friendly and simple interface. • Useful for V-Ray newbies, average and power users.
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Upgrade V-Ray Material Presets Pro v4.2.0 for €60.00 or get New License for €195.00 ( 10% discount starting from quantity of 2 Licenses )
The product is compatible with 3ds Max 2013 – 2018 | V-Ray 3.4 and above | 64 bit.
An update for V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max is available now. The new build includes over 50 feature improvements and important bug fixes. Your V-Ray for 3ds Max experience will be smoother, faster, and more reliable.
Changes include: • Adaptive lights – Fixed rendering artifacts in certain situations. • V-Ray/V-Ray RT - Optimized geometry compilation for scenes with displacement on machines with multiple cores. • V-Ray IPR - New settings to track changes to the VFB size, and to force progressive sampling. • Virtual Reality - V-Ray RT now has the option to only render the visible part of the image in OpenVR and Oculus renders.
An update for V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max is available now. The new build includes over 50 feature improvements and important bug fixes. Your V-Ray for 3ds Max experience will be smoother, faster, and more reliable.
Changes include: • Adaptive lights – Fixed rendering artifacts in certain situations. • V-Ray/V-Ray RT - Optimized geometry compilation for scenes with displacement on machines with multiple cores. • V-Ray IPR - New settings to track changes to the VFB size, and to force progressive sampling. • Virtual Reality - V-Ray RT now has the option to only render the visible part of the image in OpenVR and Oculus renders.
Chaos Group has released V-ray 3.5 for Maya, which improved rendering speed, more responsive look development, and added realism for VFX and animation projects. Major GPU rendering improvements are included in the update as well, with support for a wider range of production features. If you want please join their event!
New additions included:
• Faster rendering with Adaptive Lights V-Ray 3.5 introduces Adaptive Lights, a fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights. With Adaptive Lights, V-Ray determines which light sources are most important, so ray tracing calculations are focused and more precise. When tested on multiple CPU and GPU scenes, render times were typically two to seven times faster.
• Interactive look development in V-Ray IPR Look development is quicker and more responsive in V-Ray 3.5 for Maya. The improved V-Ray IPR starts instantly, updates faster and uses less memory. Changes to materials in the Hypershade Material Viewer now update instantly as well.
• V-Ray Frame Buffer tools New V-Ray Frame Buffer tools make rendering with V-Ray IPR even faster. The Render Mask: Isolate select mode focuses rendering on a specific object without rendering the entire scene, and a new Set Focus Point option allows the camera’s focal point to be set interactively, simply by clicking on an object.
• Improved shading and reflections For more accurate reflections and realistic skin, V-Ray 3.5 for Maya adds support for the alSurface material. Developed by Anders Langlands, the alSurface shader includes layered subsurface scattering and glossy Fresnel reflections. This makes it a popular choice for rendering photorealistic skin.
• GPU rendering improvements - On-demand Mip-mapping – Fit larger, more detailed scenes into memory with automatic texture sizing and loading - Matte Shadow catcher – Composite 3D scenes with realistic shadows onto background images - Improved glossy materials – Cleaner renders of glossy materials - Low thread priority – Continue working while rendering, now possible on a single GPU - Directional lights – Add realistic area lights with directional controls - Stochastic Flakes – Create car paints, snow and sand with procedural glitter and sparkle effects - Clipper – Create cross sections using a clipping plane - Aerial Perspective – Add atmospheric depth and haze - Cached irradiance maps – Pre-calculate global illumination using CPU and render with GPU - Lens distortion – Add realistic barrel or pincushion lens distortion - Interactive lens effects – GPU-accelerated bloom and glare effects
• Resumable rendering Stop your render at any point and continue where you left off.
Maya 2017 support • Support for XGen Interactive Groomable Splines • Support for AOV setups in new Render Setup templates
Chaos Group has released V-ray 3.5 for Maya, which improved rendering speed, more responsive look development, and added realism for VFX and animation projects. Major GPU rendering improvements are included in the update as well, with support for a wider range of production features. If you want please join their event!
New additions included:
• Faster rendering with Adaptive Lights V-Ray 3.5 introduces Adaptive Lights, a fast new lighting algorithm that speeds up rendering in scenes with many lights. With Adaptive Lights, V-Ray determines which light sources are most important, so ray tracing calculations are focused and more precise. When tested on multiple CPU and GPU scenes, render times were typically two to seven times faster.
• Interactive look development in V-Ray IPR Look development is quicker and more responsive in V-Ray 3.5 for Maya. The improved V-Ray IPR starts instantly, updates faster and uses less memory. Changes to materials in the Hypershade Material Viewer now update instantly as well.
• V-Ray Frame Buffer tools New V-Ray Frame Buffer tools make rendering with V-Ray IPR even faster. The Render Mask: Isolate select mode focuses rendering on a specific object without rendering the entire scene, and a new Set Focus Point option allows the camera’s focal point to be set interactively, simply by clicking on an object.
• Improved shading and reflections For more accurate reflections and realistic skin, V-Ray 3.5 for Maya adds support for the alSurface material. Developed by Anders Langlands, the alSurface shader includes layered subsurface scattering and glossy Fresnel reflections. This makes it a popular choice for rendering photorealistic skin.
• GPU rendering improvements - On-demand Mip-mapping – Fit larger, more detailed scenes into memory with automatic texture sizing and loading - Matte Shadow catcher – Composite 3D scenes with realistic shadows onto background images - Improved glossy materials – Cleaner renders of glossy materials - Low thread priority – Continue working while rendering, now possible on a single GPU - Directional lights – Add realistic area lights with directional controls - Stochastic Flakes – Create car paints, snow and sand with procedural glitter and sparkle effects - Clipper – Create cross sections using a clipping plane - Aerial Perspective – Add atmospheric depth and haze - Cached irradiance maps – Pre-calculate global illumination using CPU and render with GPU - Lens distortion – Add realistic barrel or pincushion lens distortion - Interactive lens effects – GPU-accelerated bloom and glare effects
• Resumable rendering Stop your render at any point and continue where you left off.
Maya 2017 support • Support for XGen Interactive Groomable Splines • Support for AOV setups in new Render Setup templates
MaxToModo is a plugin to transfer 3DsMax current scene to Modo with 2 clicks, solving common problems between import/export problems automatically, to get the best results in the fastest way and with the less effort possible. It also offers automatic conversion of scenes with V-Ray materials to Modo “similar” materials and settings.
Main Features :
• Transfer scene from 3DsMAX to Modo with 2 clicks! • Vray Support! Transfer 3DsMax scene even if they have vray materials or lights (if vray for 3DsMax installed) • Open models made for 3DsMax and send them to Modo, and use the power of the Modo renderer • Fast make Modo library from 3DsMax models • Expand your workflow.
MaxToModo is a plugin to transfer 3DsMax current scene to Modo with 2 clicks, solving common problems between import/export problems automatically, to get the best results in the fastest way and with the less effort possible. It also offers automatic conversion of scenes with V-Ray materials to Modo “similar” materials and settings.
Main Features :
• Transfer scene from 3DsMAX to Modo with 2 clicks! • Vray Support! Transfer 3DsMax scene even if they have vray materials or lights (if vray for 3DsMax installed) • Open models made for 3DsMax and send them to Modo, and use the power of the Modo renderer • Fast make Modo library from 3DsMax models • Expand your workflow.
Chaosgroup has released the latest version of V-Ray for SketchUp. V-ray 3 has been redesigned from the ground up to helps users focus on being creative without worrying about the technical stuff. The new user interface is clean and simple, with quick presets and streamlined controls. Now, it's faster and easier than ever to create great looking renders right in SketchUp.
Some new updates in V-Ray 3 for SketchUp:
• NEW UI Introducing a redesigned, designer-friendly user interface for faster workflows. • MATERIAL LIBRARY Select from over 200 drag and drop materials to speed up your next project • V-RAY SWARM Introducing a powerful, scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. • DENOISER Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%. • VR Render VR-ready content for popular virtual reality headsets. • SECTION CUTS Easily create quick cutaways and section renders with V-Ray Clipper. • AERIAL PERSPECTIVE Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze. • GRASS Create realistic grass, fabrics, and carpet with V-Ray Fur.
Chaosgroup has released the latest version of V-Ray for SketchUp. V-ray 3 has been redesigned from the ground up to helps users focus on being creative without worrying about the technical stuff. The new user interface is clean and simple, with quick presets and streamlined controls. Now, it's faster and easier than ever to create great looking renders right in SketchUp.
Some new updates in V-Ray 3 for SketchUp:
• NEW UI Introducing a redesigned, designer-friendly user interface for faster workflows. • MATERIAL LIBRARY Select from over 200 drag and drop materials to speed up your next project • V-RAY SWARM Introducing a powerful, scalable distributed rendering system that's simple and fast. • DENOISER Automatically remove noise and cut render times by up to 50%. • VR Render VR-ready content for popular virtual reality headsets. • SECTION CUTS Easily create quick cutaways and section renders with V-Ray Clipper. • AERIAL PERSPECTIVE Quickly add realistic atmospheric depth and haze. • GRASS Create realistic grass, fabrics, and carpet with V-Ray Fur.
Chaos Group announces V-Ray 3.5 for NUKE, a major update to its production-proven ray traced renderer used on films like “Spectre” and “The Revenant.” New support for volumetric rendering and deep compositing workflows have greatly expanded V-Ray for NUKE’s core capabilities, adding flexibility to film and TV productions.
Now for the first time, NUKE artists can use the V-Ray Volume Grid node to import and render fire, smoke and other fluid simulations as OpenVDB files from applications like Houdini. This gives compositors direct control over lighting and the final look of volumetric effects for better integration. For even more control, volumes rendered in V-Ray for NUKE are fully compatible with deep compositing.
Deep rendering capabilities have also been greatly improved in this update, allowing artists to fully adopt deep compositing workflows. With V-Ray for NUKE deep data can be generated directly in NUKE, helping artists save disk space and file load times.
“V-Ray for NUKE has expanded what I can do as a creative director. At Framestore, we’ve started applying it to more projects, as it provides greater control over lighting, shadows and atmospheric effects. Deep compositing and full 3D volumes are a great next step,” said William Bartlett, Executive Creative Director at Framestore.
Volume Grid – Import and render volume simulations using industry-standard volume formats, including OpenVDB, Field3D, and Phoenix FD. Deep Rendering – Improved deep rendering capabilities with support for deep volumes, offering full control over 3D depth information. V-Ray Denoiser – Automatically reduce noise for cleaner renders. Denoise individual render elements, apply denoise masks and denoise final deep composites. Light Cache GI – Speed up renders with V-Ray's unique global illumination method. Enable the new Adaptive Lights algorithm to make it even faster. Improved Render Elements – Render elements generated in V-Ray for NUKE or rendered in V-Ray Standalone can now be used interchangeably. In addition, all render elements can be cached with a single render. Triplanar texture – Apply seamless textures to complex objects without UVs. V-Ray Falloff texture – Control an object’s shading effects in relation to the camera. Use NUKE Curves for even more control. V-Ray Clipper – Create quick sections and cutaways at render time using a clipping plane or mesh object. V-Ray Spot Light – Create spotlights with textured projections, barn door controls and soft shadows.
“Deep compositing workflows have gone from being a good idea to the standard in the film and TV industries,” says Jody Madden, Chief Product and Customer Officer at Foundry. “Incorporating V-Ray's production-proven rendering capabilities into Nuke's Deep Compositing workflow will save artists huge amounts of time, and that's exactly what we want to achieve when we work with other companies.”
V-Ray 3.5 for NUKE is available now and is a free update for V-Ray 3.x for NUKE customers.
A V-Ray for NUKE Workstation license can be purchased for $1,040 through select resellers. This includes one floating user license and one floating render node. V-Ray for NUKE can render on existing V-Ray 3.x for 3ds Max and Maya render node licenses.
Chaos Group announces V-Ray 3.5 for NUKE, a major update to its production-proven ray traced renderer used on films like “Spectre” and “The Revenant.” New support for volumetric rendering and deep compositing workflows have greatly expanded V-Ray for NUKE’s core capabilities, adding flexibility to film and TV productions.
Now for the first time, NUKE artists can use the V-Ray Volume Grid node to import and render fire, smoke and other fluid simulations as OpenVDB files from applications like Houdini. This gives compositors direct control over lighting and the final look of volumetric effects for better integration. For even more control, volumes rendered in V-Ray for NUKE are fully compatible with deep compositing.
Deep rendering capabilities have also been greatly improved in this update, allowing artists to fully adopt deep compositing workflows. With V-Ray for NUKE deep data can be generated directly in NUKE, helping artists save disk space and file load times.
“V-Ray for NUKE has expanded what I can do as a creative director. At Framestore, we’ve started applying it to more projects, as it provides greater control over lighting, shadows and atmospheric effects. Deep compositing and full 3D volumes are a great next step,” said William Bartlett, Executive Creative Director at Framestore.
Volume Grid – Import and render volume simulations using industry-standard volume formats, including OpenVDB, Field3D, and Phoenix FD. Deep Rendering – Improved deep rendering capabilities with support for deep volumes, offering full control over 3D depth information. V-Ray Denoiser – Automatically reduce noise for cleaner renders. Denoise individual render elements, apply denoise masks and denoise final deep composites. Light Cache GI – Speed up renders with V-Ray's unique global illumination method. Enable the new Adaptive Lights algorithm to make it even faster. Improved Render Elements – Render elements generated in V-Ray for NUKE or rendered in V-Ray Standalone can now be used interchangeably. In addition, all render elements can be cached with a single render. Triplanar texture – Apply seamless textures to complex objects without UVs. V-Ray Falloff texture – Control an object’s shading effects in relation to the camera. Use NUKE Curves for even more control. V-Ray Clipper – Create quick sections and cutaways at render time using a clipping plane or mesh object. V-Ray Spot Light – Create spotlights with textured projections, barn door controls and soft shadows.
“Deep compositing workflows have gone from being a good idea to the standard in the film and TV industries,” says Jody Madden, Chief Product and Customer Officer at Foundry. “Incorporating V-Ray's production-proven rendering capabilities into Nuke's Deep Compositing workflow will save artists huge amounts of time, and that's exactly what we want to achieve when we work with other companies.”
V-Ray 3.5 for NUKE is available now and is a free update for V-Ray 3.x for NUKE customers.
A V-Ray for NUKE Workstation license can be purchased for $1,040 through select resellers. This includes one floating user license and one floating render node. V-Ray for NUKE can render on existing V-Ray 3.x for 3ds Max and Maya render node licenses.
Rotem Shiffman has announced the release of VFB+ 2.8 (Virtual Frame Buffer), the advanced frame buffer plugin for 3DS Max. It features an intuitive user interface, renders history capabilities. It support in 3DS Max 2017 for high DPI monitors and for very large images (over 2GB), changes to contrast which now uses an improved S-curve algorithm, and improved UI icons.
Features included: • 32-bit per channel color correction. • Various correction controls including exposure, gamma, multi-channel curves, vignette, chromatic aberration, bloom, glare, blur/sharpen, speckle reduction, noise reduction, etc. • Depth of Field based on Z-Depth. • VFB+ is active while rendering, including tweaking of color correction and stamping. • Captures Render Elements, G-Buffer channels, and RTT elements as well as the main pass. • Composition guides help you tweak your image. • Pixel Aspect Ratio correction display. • 4 different A|B comparison modes. • Display modes for all channels. • Support for 3D color LUTs. • Realtime RGB Histogram. • Rich WYSIWYG stamping system with virtually any imaginable variable including arbitrary MAXScript expressions. • Fully documented. • Customizable interoperability options. • MAXScript interface provides access to almost all features.
Rotem Shiffman has announced the release of VFB+ 2.8 (Virtual Frame Buffer), the advanced frame buffer plugin for 3DS Max. It features an intuitive user interface, renders history capabilities. It support in 3DS Max 2017 for high DPI monitors and for very large images (over 2GB), changes to contrast which now uses an improved S-curve algorithm, and improved UI icons.
Features included: • 32-bit per channel color correction. • Various correction controls including exposure, gamma, multi-channel curves, vignette, chromatic aberration, bloom, glare, blur/sharpen, speckle reduction, noise reduction, etc. • Depth of Field based on Z-Depth. • VFB+ is active while rendering, including tweaking of color correction and stamping. • Captures Render Elements, G-Buffer channels, and RTT elements as well as the main pass. • Composition guides help you tweak your image. • Pixel Aspect Ratio correction display. • 4 different A|B comparison modes. • Display modes for all channels. • Support for 3D color LUTs. • Realtime RGB Histogram. • Rich WYSIWYG stamping system with virtually any imaginable variable including arbitrary MAXScript expressions. • Fully documented. • Customizable interoperability options. • MAXScript interface provides access to almost all features.
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.50 for 3ds Max 2013 - 2017, a free update to the leading CPU and GPU renderer. With the addition of nine major features and a number of performance improvements, V-Ray 3.5 is the fastest and most powerful version yet.
To solve the long-time challenge of rendering scenes with many lights, Chaos Group's R&D team has written a new Adaptive Lights algorithm that drastically speeds up render times. After extensive testing on architectural interiors and large environments with hundreds or even thousands of lights, benchmarking results show that Adaptive Lights can be up to seven times faster, depending on the scene. Now artists can work with a virtually unlimited amount of light sources, rendering scenes that were previously impossible.
“We’ve been testing V-Ray’s new Adaptive Lights on the GPU, and we’re impressed by the results,” said Tomasz Wyszołmirski, studio director at Dabarti. “In one of our scenes, render times were seven times faster than before – a 54 minute render dropped to 7.5 minutes with Adaptive Lights! The difference is amazing.”
-Interactive production rendering – Fully interactive production rendering with immediate feedback. -Glossy fresnel – New, physically-accurate reflection model adds more realism to any scene. -Resumable rendering – Ability to stop and continue rendering at any point, preserving work and saving time. Supports both progressive and bucket rendering. -Live VR rendering – Render directly to Oculus Rift or HTC Vive with full GPU acceleration. Visualize changes within the headset as they are made in 3ds Max. -V-Ray Scene node – Import and render complete scene files created in any V-Ray application. V-Ray scenes are render-ready assets and contain all geometry, lights, materials and textures. -Interactive lens effects – GPU-accelerated glare and bloom effects that can be enabled and adjusted while rendering. Compatible with V-Ray Denoiser. -alSurface material – General-purpose shader by Anders Langlands includes built-in SSS controls; popular for skin. -MDL materials – NVIDIA’s universal material format is now supported by V-Ray, allowing designers to apply MDL materials authored in programs like Substance Designer to their assets and scenes.
GPU Rendering Improvements: Continued V-Ray GPU development has led to faster speeds and an expanded feature set. In addition to the speed gains of Adaptive Lights, memory-efficiency has been dramatically improved through On-Demand Mip-mapping; an intelligent way to load and render textures quickly using automatic processing and the GPU.
-V-Ray GPU will also now support: -iToo Software Forest Color textures -Cached irradiance maps -Aerial perspective -V-Ray Clipper -Directional area lights -Procedural bump -Stochastic flakes -Matte/shadow catcher -Render mask -Low GPU thread priority
For more information on GPU rendering improvements, please visit the Chaos Group Labs blog.
Availability
V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max is a free update for all V-Ray 3.x customers. Login at chaosgroup.com to download. This version also marks the debut of online licensing for V-Ray for 3ds Max users, who can now choose this option instead of the traditional dongle. A full-featured 30-day trial is also available here!
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.50 for 3ds Max 2013 - 2017, a free update to the leading CPU and GPU renderer. With the addition of nine major features and a number of performance improvements, V-Ray 3.5 is the fastest and most powerful version yet.
To solve the long-time challenge of rendering scenes with many lights, Chaos Group's R&D team has written a new Adaptive Lights algorithm that drastically speeds up render times. After extensive testing on architectural interiors and large environments with hundreds or even thousands of lights, benchmarking results show that Adaptive Lights can be up to seven times faster, depending on the scene. Now artists can work with a virtually unlimited amount of light sources, rendering scenes that were previously impossible.
“We’ve been testing V-Ray’s new Adaptive Lights on the GPU, and we’re impressed by the results,” said Tomasz Wyszołmirski, studio director at Dabarti. “In one of our scenes, render times were seven times faster than before – a 54 minute render dropped to 7.5 minutes with Adaptive Lights! The difference is amazing.”
-Interactive production rendering – Fully interactive production rendering with immediate feedback. -Glossy fresnel – New, physically-accurate reflection model adds more realism to any scene. -Resumable rendering – Ability to stop and continue rendering at any point, preserving work and saving time. Supports both progressive and bucket rendering. -Live VR rendering – Render directly to Oculus Rift or HTC Vive with full GPU acceleration. Visualize changes within the headset as they are made in 3ds Max. -V-Ray Scene node – Import and render complete scene files created in any V-Ray application. V-Ray scenes are render-ready assets and contain all geometry, lights, materials and textures. -Interactive lens effects – GPU-accelerated glare and bloom effects that can be enabled and adjusted while rendering. Compatible with V-Ray Denoiser. -alSurface material – General-purpose shader by Anders Langlands includes built-in SSS controls; popular for skin. -MDL materials – NVIDIA’s universal material format is now supported by V-Ray, allowing designers to apply MDL materials authored in programs like Substance Designer to their assets and scenes.
GPU Rendering Improvements: Continued V-Ray GPU development has led to faster speeds and an expanded feature set. In addition to the speed gains of Adaptive Lights, memory-efficiency has been dramatically improved through On-Demand Mip-mapping; an intelligent way to load and render textures quickly using automatic processing and the GPU.
-V-Ray GPU will also now support: -iToo Software Forest Color textures -Cached irradiance maps -Aerial perspective -V-Ray Clipper -Directional area lights -Procedural bump -Stochastic flakes -Matte/shadow catcher -Render mask -Low GPU thread priority
For more information on GPU rendering improvements, please visit the Chaos Group Labs blog.
Availability
V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max is a free update for all V-Ray 3.x customers. Login at chaosgroup.com to download. This version also marks the debut of online licensing for V-Ray for 3ds Max users, who can now choose this option instead of the traditional dongle. A full-featured 30-day trial is also available here!
cebas Visual Technology announced the immediate availability of psd-manager 4.0 - the multi-layer PSD exporter for Autodesk 3ds Max. The update provides new features and support for 3ds Max 2017
New Features:
Adjustment layers for a non-destructive workflow
-Save 3ds max Gamma correction as precise Photoshop Adjustment Layer in the PSD file - -Precisely matches 3ds max Gamma correction - -Allows to correctly compose render elements in linear space within 8/16 bit PSD files
-Save V-Ray color corrections as Adjustment Layer (embedded LUT) - -Start tonal adjustments in the V-Ray framebuffer, then improve or revert as needed within Photoshop
Improved Render Elements Output: -New Auto-Sort mode keeps layers organized continuously -Render elements can now be encloed into a global layer group -Per render element control over Gamma correction and V-Ray color corrections -Updated built-in presets for over 200 render element types
Named Selection Sets Output:
-3ds max Named Selection sets can now be used for quick and easy creation of masks -User friendly, since no IDs need to be assigned to create masks for arbitrary groups of objects -Masks can be exported as layers (Alpha Matte, Luminance Matte, Render Cut-out) or channels
Corona Renderer Support:
-psd-manager now supports Corona (Rendered Image Output and Render Elements Output) -Built-in presets apply correct blending mode, layer visibility, layer order etc. for all Corona render elements -Auto-sort mode ensures Framestamp, Beauty, Bloom & Glare are on top of the stack and all Masking and Light Select elements stay among their own kind -Automatic Corona CMasking_Mask render element splitting & naming
V-Ray specific improvements
-Optimized workflow for V-Ray Denoiser - -Denoiser elements are automatically arranged on top of other layers - -Gamma correction is applied to Denosier layer but not to elements that need to stay in linear space for back-to-beauty compositing - -Optionally exclude render channels generated by V-Ray Denoiser from export -Export V-Ray color corrections as Color Lookup Adjustment Layer (LUT based) -New built-in presets for V-Ray Render Elements (Denoiser, NoiseLevel, MtlReflectIOR, OptionRE ) -V-Ray color corrections are automatically applied to specific render elements only (RGB, Denoiser, ObjectSelect, MtlSelect) -V-Ray color corrections can be enabled per render element -VRayMtlSelect and VRayObjectSelect elements now use layer transparency by default
PSB Format support (Photoshop Large Document Format):
-Creation of Photoshop documents over 2 gigabytes in file size or 30000 pixels in resolution is now supported -Automatic switching to PSB format when the limits of the PSD format are exceeded (no re-rendering required)
Improved Scene Layers Output:
-List of scene layers is now shown as a hierarchy, sorted and resizable -Scene layers appear in order of the flattened hierarchy in the PSD file. -Empty layers are filtered out even when objects are just obscured or outside the field of view
Other new Features and Changes:
-3ds max 2017 support -Custom dithering algorithm to avoid noticeable patterns of standard 3ds max dithering -Option to show or hide all masking layers -Support for ART Renderer render elements export (added workaround for ART bug) -Simplified deployment and updates using Cebas Product Manager
Pricing & Availability
psd-manager 4.0 is now available at the cebas shop starting from 5$/5€ a month (one year license). Licensing options now include both perpetual (Full 159$ / Upgrade 79$) and rental licenses. Prices may vary depending on the region you are located in. All purchases of psd-manager 3 made in 2016 will be upgraded to psd-manager 4 at no charge. The free upgrade can be ordered until end of March 2017 using this email form. Please contact info@cebas.com if you have any questions.
cebas Visual Technology announced the immediate availability of psd-manager 4.0 - the multi-layer PSD exporter for Autodesk 3ds Max. The update provides new features and support for 3ds Max 2017
New Features:
Adjustment layers for a non-destructive workflow
-Save 3ds max Gamma correction as precise Photoshop Adjustment Layer in the PSD file - -Precisely matches 3ds max Gamma correction - -Allows to correctly compose render elements in linear space within 8/16 bit PSD files
-Save V-Ray color corrections as Adjustment Layer (embedded LUT) - -Start tonal adjustments in the V-Ray framebuffer, then improve or revert as needed within Photoshop
Improved Render Elements Output: -New Auto-Sort mode keeps layers organized continuously -Render elements can now be encloed into a global layer group -Per render element control over Gamma correction and V-Ray color corrections -Updated built-in presets for over 200 render element types
Named Selection Sets Output:
-3ds max Named Selection sets can now be used for quick and easy creation of masks -User friendly, since no IDs need to be assigned to create masks for arbitrary groups of objects -Masks can be exported as layers (Alpha Matte, Luminance Matte, Render Cut-out) or channels
Corona Renderer Support:
-psd-manager now supports Corona (Rendered Image Output and Render Elements Output) -Built-in presets apply correct blending mode, layer visibility, layer order etc. for all Corona render elements -Auto-sort mode ensures Framestamp, Beauty, Bloom & Glare are on top of the stack and all Masking and Light Select elements stay among their own kind -Automatic Corona CMasking_Mask render element splitting & naming
V-Ray specific improvements
-Optimized workflow for V-Ray Denoiser - -Denoiser elements are automatically arranged on top of other layers - -Gamma correction is applied to Denosier layer but not to elements that need to stay in linear space for back-to-beauty compositing - -Optionally exclude render channels generated by V-Ray Denoiser from export -Export V-Ray color corrections as Color Lookup Adjustment Layer (LUT based) -New built-in presets for V-Ray Render Elements (Denoiser, NoiseLevel, MtlReflectIOR, OptionRE ) -V-Ray color corrections are automatically applied to specific render elements only (RGB, Denoiser, ObjectSelect, MtlSelect) -V-Ray color corrections can be enabled per render element -VRayMtlSelect and VRayObjectSelect elements now use layer transparency by default
PSB Format support (Photoshop Large Document Format):
-Creation of Photoshop documents over 2 gigabytes in file size or 30000 pixels in resolution is now supported -Automatic switching to PSB format when the limits of the PSD format are exceeded (no re-rendering required)
Improved Scene Layers Output:
-List of scene layers is now shown as a hierarchy, sorted and resizable -Scene layers appear in order of the flattened hierarchy in the PSD file. -Empty layers are filtered out even when objects are just obscured or outside the field of view
Other new Features and Changes:
-3ds max 2017 support -Custom dithering algorithm to avoid noticeable patterns of standard 3ds max dithering -Option to show or hide all masking layers -Support for ART Renderer render elements export (added workaround for ART bug) -Simplified deployment and updates using Cebas Product Manager
Pricing & Availability
psd-manager 4.0 is now available at the cebas shop starting from 5$/5€ a month (one year license). Licensing options now include both perpetual (Full 159$ / Upgrade 79$) and rental licenses. Prices may vary depending on the region you are located in. All purchases of psd-manager 3 made in 2016 will be upgraded to psd-manager 4 at no charge. The free upgrade can be ordered until end of March 2017 using this email form. Please contact info@cebas.com if you have any questions.
V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max is coming soon! There is a bunch of features include ability to add VRayScene object node to import .vrscene files in 3ds Max, NVIDIA MDL support, V-Ray GPU enhancements, and reworked lens effects.
V-Ray 3.5 for 3ds Max is coming soon! There is a bunch of features include ability to add VRayScene object node to import .vrscene files in 3ds Max, NVIDIA MDL support, V-Ray GPU enhancements, and reworked lens effects.
Improved GPU Rendering
Stochastic Flakes
Aerial Perspective
Render Zoom & Enhannce Vision
VFB Direct select
ALSurface Material
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