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Quick Tip – An Intro to VRay RT

Quick Tip – An Intro to VRay RT

on May 26th 2010 with 9 comments
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This entry is part 13 of 14 in the Evan Schaible Session
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In this quick tip we will take a beginners look at VrayRT, examining workflow, and a few basic techniques to get you up and started with Active Shade rendering.

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Evan Schaible is a fluids/particle artist and technical director from Los Angeles. Being currently unemployed, he is looking for full time staff work, as well as honing his own skills by doing freelance technical direction, visual effects, and occasionally even motion graphics and visualization. He runs a training website that can be found at: www.ParticleFlow.net, and his blog can be found at: www.evanschaible.com.  

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  • http://www.complexitygaming.com Andrew

    Wow, nice Evan. Never even thought to use Activeshade, at least with the default renderer. Need to get my hands on vRay 2010.

    • http://www.evanschaible.com Evan Schaible

      Is the website clicking on your name points too your site?

  • DJboltu

    Wonderful tutorial !

  • slyngel

    Thanks for that but for some reason my viewport wont update other than when it is initialized. If i rotate or move anything in the scene it willnot update?

    Any solutions for that?

    • http://www.evanschaible.com Evan Schaible

      That is something I am pretty sure has to do with either graphics card or RAM issues. I have had that same issue before, but it always seems to just start working, rather than my finding a fix for it. =)

  • Ben

    @slyngel:
    It should be clear, that your viewport won’t refresh when it’s not active. The reason is the waste of performance, when you are working on your scene – not needing the renderer.

    Try to lock your render view by clicking the little lock-icon next to in the “common” tab – near “Assign renderer”

    Cheers

  • riptdv

    You talk about RT using your GFX card. As far as I know RT doesn’t use the graphics card yet, only CPU.

    • http://www.evanschaible.com Evan Schaible

      Well I was talking about a combination of Max using my DirectX, Camtasia using my OpenGL, VrayRT using resources, and just getting errors and having trouble do to that. =)

      • haha

        That’s not what you said