Where's Best for VRay Tuts?
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Hi Guys,
I'm an intermediate user of SU and recently got Vray. I struggling to get to grips with it and finding Sketchup related tutorials for Vray is proving very hard.
Could you suggest sites for me to browse to learn using this plug-in?
I followed all the tutorials on the Vray Manual for Sketchup but feel I'm only touching iceberg tip
Any suggestions are welcome.....
Also i use sketchup for modeling aircraft parts and components for use in training apprentices to understand structure better so I'd like to use rendered pictures to add some extra pizazz to my presentations
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No one brave enough to answer???
Or is my question so stupid that it doesn't merit an answer???
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Hey Rich,
I have a PDF manual on it if you like, I can e-mail you? Let me know. The manual is pretty good.
Jeff
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V-Ray tutorials for Rhino, Max etc is useful to read even if you use Sketchup. V-Ray is still V-Ray. However, V-Ray for Sktchup is missing a few features that that full Max version has. But that will change allot in version 2.
V-Ray for Rhino is the closest. It has identical V-Ray UI.
The ASGvis forums are a very good resource to work out problems and questions. vray.com also has some nice resources.
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@thomthom said:
V-Ray for Sktchup is missing a few features that that full Max version has. But that will change allot in version 2.
Oh? Did Damien Alomar comment on version 2 somewhere?
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Yes, in some posts here and there. But not in a VfSU2 specific post. Some of the highlights; most, if not all, V-Ray material types will be available to VfSU. More light types, IES for instance. Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced UI choice - The beginner will have less dials and buttons. Note that nothing of which he's mentioned is quarantined to be included in v2, but they're trying to.
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Thanks for the info, Thomas.
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Version 2
, oooh! thanks for the heads up, I will start saving today.Any thumbsucking prediction as to when?
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amazing how a cry for help turns into discussion about future update?
great to hear they are simplifying the UI though , thanks guys!!!
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@unknownuser said:
Any thumbsucking prediction as to when?
From what I've heard; "When it's done."
@unknownuser said:
amazing how a cry for help turns into discussion about future update?
Sorry for going OT.
I don't have a link to any collection of V-Ray tutorials. What I've done is Google specific things which I wanted to accomplish. But the key here, as I mentioned earlier, is that you get useful info from any version of V-Ray. Even from tutorials aimed towards other rendering engines as the concepts are often the same.
V-Ray has allot of knobs and buttons and it takes a while to get to grips with them all. I often stage micro tests. When there's a certain effect I want to create, or feature to test, I make a very small scene that's quick to render and then adjust one or two parameters at a time to see what they do and what kind of effect it produces.
The Spot3D online V-Ray Manual is very useful as it has many examples, saving you the time to set up micro tests.
I mentioned the vray.com site, it also has a manual, which is VfSU specific. It looks to be based on ASGVis' manual, but filled in with more info and examples.
There's a number of ways to produce a certain effect in V-Ray, so often asking a specific question in a forum is of more value than a generic tutorial.
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Here's the project i'm trying to render. It's a wardrobe for the new arrival we're expecting in july.
I'd like to render this with a semi gloss finish so i could show the lady boss what the finished product looks like. To quote herself ' why does sketchup look like a cartoon?'
So i've inherited a laptop with SU6 and VRay and have started to teach myself its workings. So far it winning the battle and i'm losing.
ps, by inheriting i mean that the current global economic meltdown has forced an architect friend of mine to put away the pen and pencils and join the law enforcement brigade.
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I'll have a look at the wardobe later. It's getting late here.
@unknownuser said:
To quote herself ' why does sketchup look like a cartoon?'
Because it's Sketchup..?
@unknownuser said:
SU6 and VRay
Which VfSU version do you have? Original, SR1.0 or SR1.5?
@unknownuser said:
ps, by inheriting i mean that the current global economic meltdown has forced an architect friend of mine to put away the pen and pencils and join the law enforcement brigade.
Yea, there's lots of architects being made redundant where I live. I'm not an architect, but a modelmaker in an architectural company so I, and my friends from uni, is also affected. Just visited two friends in London that are currently without jobs and a third where it's touch and go...
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Version 1.5
Thanks for the help
Is that why you wear the sunglasses......because of the late nites????
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I found these tuts on the web, but for some reason I always have trouble with the rar extension from rapidshare (I have winzip and 7-zip) so if someone would be kind enough to upload them as zips and hopefully we can all learn something as there's been quite a few Vray questions here lately. Thanks.
MODULE 1: The Critical Settings - Part I
MODULE 2: The Critical Settings - Part II
MODULE 3: V-Ray Materials
MODULE 4: Animating Static Scenes
MODULE 5: Image Based Lighting (HDRI)
MODULE 6: Lights
MODULE 7: Advanced Features Part I
MODULE 8: Advanced Features Part II
MODULE 9: Practical Exterior Lighting
MODULE 10: Practical Interior Lighting (in 2 parts)edited out by remus. please don't link to pirated content.
Mike
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Dude - what were you thinking when you posted these links? Someone remove these, please!
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Are they paying tutorials, stinkie?
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Yes, I do believe they are. These are free: http://www.asgvis.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=16&Itemid=57
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My apolozies, I had no idea that they were paid tuts, they were listed on several sites with no mention of being pirated and as I couldn't get them to open I had no idea what they were except for the description which sounded like some good Vray tuts, my bad.
Mike
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It happens, last week I was looking for a good tropical grass texture and hunted online for one, I found a site with a link to a whole grass bundle of over 20 brilliant ones, so I linked to it only to find it was a rapidshare download of prime Cornucopia content.
So I guess that as a rule of thumb if it comes from rapidshare the chances are good that it's funky. -
@alpro said:
My apolozies, I had no idea that they were paid tuts, they were listed on several sites with no mention of being pirated and as I couldn't get them to open I had no idea what they were except for the description which sounded like some good Vray tuts, my bad.
You're not the first to make this mistake. I saw these posted on PPB some time ago as well.
RS links usually are dodgy.
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