Hey all,
This week doesn’t have a Monday Movie lined up just yet. I got pretty sick over the weekend, so I haven’t done the recording. I just slept and didn’t eat anything. I’ll try to make up for it next week with a two-parter to keep week parity. Maybe two videos on VRay?
Sorry!
First Attempt at VRay
Hey all,
I’ve been having trouble finding someone who has VRay that would be willing to let me borrow it, so I’ve decided to just download the trial version and work from there. Within the first 20 minutes of fooling around I managed to create the image on the right.
My first impression of VRay is positive. The interface is tight and flows smoothly from lighting, to materials, to GI and depth of field blur. I felt at home very quickly since everything feels like it’s in nice, logical places and the settings respond in reasonable ways. On the downside, I’m noticing a distinct lack of presets and quick settings that prevent you from really going into second gear. This is something that the mental ray renderer discovered several versions ago and corrected for. Also, it has a really annoying habit of turning off GI and caustics settings between renders.
I’ll add more as it happens, but so far it looks like there may be VRay video tutorials in our future.
EDIT: I noticed also that the demo version is SP2 while the documentation is for SP4. There are a lot of features missing- I’ve e-mailed the ChaosGroup to see what we can work out.
Hey Everyone!
This week I’ve got a great episode that goes into how you can create floating dialog windows for your MaxScripts. I’ll even go into how you can create a “Random Selection” utility in MaxScript. Hope you enjoy it!
Hey all!
I’ll have my next 3dsMax video tutorial up shortly.
In the meantime, I wanted to announce that the first round of transcriptions are complete. I’ll be adding these in batches if they prove to be useful. I’ll monitor the next few weeks to see if there’s any improvement in site traffic corresponding to the change. Below is the list of updated posts:
Guess who’s back from vacation?
Sorry for the delay on this video: I didn’t expect to be so demolished from 25 hours of flying yesterday. Anyway, this week is slated with some great videos and great news!
I’ll be showing you how to do some basic automation in 3dsMax’s MaxScript scripting language. It’s a lot easier than you think and can give you a real edge! We’ll be looking at how you can manipulate some cubes using simple MaxScript operations, and I’ll show you how to use the Macro Recorder to automate almost any process in 3dsMax. If you’re looking to get a little more practice with scripting, after the video you can follow my Scripted Clay Rendering tutorial.
I’m also going to get transcriptions for about 10 of my Monday Movies going back a few weeks, so keep an eye out for that. Special thanks goes out to Devanie at VideoTranscriptions.net for doing a perfect job at…well…video transcriptions.
