Tutorial Details
- Software: Autodesk 3DS Max
- Difficulty: Easy/ Moderate
- Completion Time: 30 minutes
- Additional Files/ Plugins: Vray Advanced 1.5 SP4 (SP4 is necessary) and VrayRT
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
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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Wow, nice Evan. Never even thought to use Activeshade, at least with the default renderer. Need to get my hands on vRay 2010.
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Wonderful tutorial !
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?
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. =)
@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
You talk about RT using your GFX card. As far as I know RT doesn’t use the graphics card yet, only CPU.
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. =)