In the attached picture I have a dome light added to the scence (left). In the right no dome light.

The blue hue in the right render is standard in Vray as far as I know? Can this be changed to white?

The left scence with the dome light has a yellow tone? I have no yellow setting anywhere. Why is that?

Thanks!

If I change the colour of the sun the colour of my scence doesn´t change. Seems like I must´ve missed something?

Yes I got it! Thanks

Alright, I understand.

You have a message by the way.

OK I understand, but hmm.. is 100 megs really that large for a very high res picture in A1 format? Guess you would know if it´s smaller inside InDesign.

How much smaller in size does one of your pictures become in InDesign? 70% of the Illustrator size? 50%

Just change the size of the picture in Photoshop if it´s huge. It would take you 10 seconds to do this, and just set the DPI to, let´s say, 180-240. Or more, your choice. Done.

By the way, I only work with newspaper design, which doesn´t involve 10 meter wide banners. I don´t know if that changes anything. It might.
EDIT: Well yes it must. That file size would be crazy large. Don´t know how to deal with that type of stuff.

I think saving as PDF, rather than EPS, also decreases the size somewhat, but changing nothing to the work or file. We save in PDF all the time. But I might be wrong about the size decreasing though.

Clipping masks are a pain in Illustrator? Guess it depends on what you want to achive. Simple things I´ll do in InDesign if it gets the job done, but most of the time I do it in Illustrator, sometimes together with Photoshop. I have to most of the times since photos and graphics often overlap in my work, and often in quite "complex" ways.

But I guess everyone uses different techniqes. Depends on what your work involves. I suspect you don´t work with infographics?

Alright, great thanks! Makes sense

"I've never been happy with using raster images in illustrator."

That´s a new one. I´ve never had any problem with Illustrator not showing photos properly. Never heard of this problem from anyone. In fact, if there had been problems like that me and my workmates couldn´t do the work we do.
Strange.

OK, I get it. Pixel images like photos.. Yeah, we use them on occasion at the newspaper where I work

Thanks!

"using raster images in illustrator."

Umm.. what exactly is a raster image again? No, I didn´t lie about my work as a graphic news designer, and although I´ve heard the term raster image I´m not sure what it is actually. Please note that my Adobe set is in swedish.

"I'll do all the vector work for a layout in illustrator and then reference that into inDesign"
Same here. Doing vector graphics in InDesign sounds horrible

@rich o brien said:

Use ALT+Left Button to sample face

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I tried clicking on a material with ALT+left button but I didn´t see anything happening. Tried it and then opened the Material editor and the material marked was still a material I had marked previously.

EDIT: Hold on, I have attached pictures blocked. I now see that you have a picture named "material picker". I suspect you were giving me the same advice as the other guy. Thanks! Got it!

When I use the section plane to slice an object for see-thru it automatically adjusts to a surface, that´s great. But it always covers an entire object for me, that´s great too, but what if I want to shorten a part of it like the width a little bit? I can´t seem to move it around left and right as a whole and neither can I mark a side and drag that left or right.

Any advice?

@valerostudio said:

I think I also asked the Chaos guys a long time ago to add an eyedropper shortcut to the material editor. Might be a plugin out there, but the paint bucket + alt works like a charm. I think this will be a Doh! moment for LARV.

WELL, LOOK AT THAT!! Thanks!

Yes, resizing pictures in Illustrator is no problem, but If I want to change the DPI I do that in Photoshop first before importing into illustrator. For some reason my rendered Vray picture didn´t work as I´m used to with photos.

"Though for printing raster documents, I'd recommend using inDesign. Much better link and page management."

That part of the work process is no problem, I work with both profesionally since 8 years. I use both for different purposes.

Thanks!

Let´s say I import a large object containing several groups and many different materials.
I want to target one of these in the material editor, but I can´t find the specific material among 30 others in the Material Editor because the material doesn´t have a specific name, let´s say, "Gun turret". It might be named "material 34" or whatever.

Sometimes I can select a material and then open the Material Editor and the material will be highlighted. But this doesn´t always happen.

What´s the easiest way to find a specific material in the Material Editor?

Thanks!

"On a computer screen there's really no difference between having a large image, zoomed out, and having a small image with a high DPI"

Yes, that´s correct.

I actually tried importing a large rendered picture into Photoshop and scalining it down while rasising the DPI, and now it looks good in Illustrator

Thanks for all your help!

Wow, cool!

If I have some rendering options already set, will the presets make those turn back to default or stay as they were set?

OK thanks but I´ve tried larger renderings than that and it´s still not super sharp, but on the other hand I´m so used to illustrator I might have to accept that rendering animations will never be as sharp as vector.

"..output size would be (8.5x11? 18x24? etc) then multiply each dimension by 300.."

So if I want a scence to be 20 cm wide on paper, the width would be 20x300=6000?