Vray reflection mapping

thomthom

I am also a little green when it comes to 'physical' camera, I do not understand the language of camera's and what all those option mean or do, my scenes are always dull and washed out.

Same here. But I'm slowly starting to understand what does what. I prefer to use Physical Camera.
The default VRay settings can often make things look washed out. A quick-trick I do often is save the render in 32bit colours and adjust the levels or curves in PS.

thomthom

Btw, did you add the reflection mapping in the Reflection Map slot or the Filter slot?

solo

Reflection slot, you can add in filter slot?

thomthom

@solo said:

Reflection slot, you can add in filter slot?

In regards to the original poster.

thomthom

Just to point out. There's a difference between the Reflection slot in the Maps section and the one in the Reflection layer.

The Maps reflection is to override what the Reflection layer should reflect. The Reflection layer controls how the reflection should behave.

kwistenbiebel

Ibon andSolo,

Try to increase the multiplier of the reflection slot to 30000 or higher.
You should be seeing some results..

I don't think however VfSU can produce an image as the example here. Therefore we would need a Sun object in a HDR combo , a thing that is virtually impossible in the sketchup version.

A lot of people asked to have a 'posable' sun object, but somehow Asgvis considers it not possible to implement.
It would be the solution for a lot of sun/sky light trouble though.

thomthom

@kwistenbiebel said:

Ibon andSolo,

Try to increase the multiplier of the reflection slot to 30000 or higher.
You should be seeing some results..

Don't think it'll help ibon. They don't have the same issue.

kwistenbiebel

You're right Thomas.
I was a bit too hasty in my response. I described the way to handle reflections in a global way...
Never tried the 'per texture' method so I follow this thread with great intrest.

thomthom

Did a quick little test.

I think bumpmap and filter maps would work. The V-Ray manual says that the filter slot is to apply colour to the refletion, but if you use grayscale images it will control the 'opacity' of the reflection as well. It's easier to use the filter slot when you have fresnel reflection map.

Stinkie

I'm guessing Ibon wants to know how to use specular maps in VfSU. Which is something I'd like to know as well.

Where's FreeAgent when you need him?

kwistenbiebel

@unknownuser said:

I'm guessing Ibon wants to know how to use specular maps in VfSU. Which is something I'd like to know as well.

Where's FreeAgent when you need him?

That would indeed be helpful.
Not once, I succeeded in getting specular maps in properly using VfSU. I tried numerous times setting up a decent arroway material (they come with spec map) but never with the desired result.

ibon

Sorry for my late answer. Thanks all for your interest and help. I have never used the "reflection per texture method", so i'm learning a lot in this thread. And yes, stinkie, that's exactly what i'm looking for, i didn't know it's name (specular maps). I have some arroway materials too kwistenbiebel, and they are the reason of my search. They came with diff, bump/disp and other one (now i know it's specular), and i wanted to know if it's possible to use in VfSU. Sorry again not for being clear when speaking english

stefanq

Ibon, I have an old post on asgvis, about specular maps, but for some reason, I can't access the site. But,I can tell you where I put specular maps, and it's fine. First , make a reflection layer for your material, then, go to reflection/M/(here you have fresnel)/put your map in the "fresnel color"
I recommend you to use just reflections and specular without bump, to see if it's working. If it's OK, then you can use bump too!
Good Luck!

thomthom

Yea, the forum just went down. At least from the default URL. You can access it from this alternative URL which works: http://asgvis.com/smf/index.php

I tried searching for the thread you mentioned. But I couldn't find it. Found a different thread though related to specular reflections.
http://asgvis.com/smf/index.php?topic=2248.msg11150

Stinkie

Odd. Stefan's solution differs from JoeB's.

Edit: I can see you, FA! Give up yer secrets!

thomthom

Seems there's many ways to apply specular maps.
I figured it'd be of interest to see the reply of one of the ASGVis employees.

stefanq

Thanks for the link Thomas, here the link for my post....sorry for schrolling...it's on page 2..
http://asgvis.com/smf/index.php?topic=4089.15
Stinkie, yes, it's odd, but it's working.Check the link above.

EDIT: the post it's about HDRI, but on page 2, almost at the bottom, I have some images about specular maps.

stefanq

OK, I did another test...just to be sure it's still working
I have a diffuse layer with the color, and another one ( ghost layer) witch it's transparent, for helping vray to set the correct UV for the specular map.

Stinkie

@thomthom said:

Seems there's many ways to apply specular maps.
I figured it'd be of interest to see the reply of one of the ASGVis employees.

Yeah, that'd be nice.

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

@thomthom said:

Seems there's many ways to apply specular maps.
I figured it'd be of interest to see the reply of one of the ASGVis employees.

Yeah, that'd be nice.

JoeB was that reply.