If the light should block your view, check "invisible" in the attributes for the light. To create a simple chrome material, open up the "hypershade window" and select "VRay Mtl". In the attribute editor change the color to black and make the material reflective (Fig.09 & Fig.10).Īnd there we have it! You can see the light's reflection in the chrome sphere it can easily be turned off under the lights attribute by unchecking "Affect reflections" (Fig.11). I changed the lights subdivs to "32" (Fig.08). Rotate and change the size of it as you wish, also you often have to lower the intensity (default 30) I used a value of "3" in my scene! U and V size depends on your scene. It adds a VRay light in the middle of the scene. Now let's add a light and also take a quick look at the VRay materials! To add a VRay light go to Create > Lights > VRay Rect Light. Leave the "Translator" and "Render Elements" tabs to another tutorial! Ok, so we did just set up a basic GI environment.
#Vray tutorial free
This free Vray Mtl interactive tutorial by the Swiss 3D rendering company VisualCenter explains all. It is videly used in 3D architectural renderings and 3D architectural animations because it can simulate the vast majority of real life materials, from hard metallic surfaces to soft and diffuse ones. For test renders I sometimes go up to 0.5 it saves a lot of time! The default is 0.010 (Fig.07). VRay Mtl stands for Vray Material and is a very powerful and most used shader in Vray. Take advantage of these free V-Ray rendering tutorials today and take your learning to the next level. Keep in mind that for test renders it might be better to lower the settings to medium or low, to save time (Fig.05)!Ī feature under the "Settings" tab that can be useful is the "Adaptive Threshold" for production quality. This a collection of completely free Vray tutorials organized by software. Under the "Irradiance map" settings, you can choose from different quality settings "high" is for production. Under the "Indirect Illumination" tab, check "On" to activate Global Illumination. In this tutorial the settings in the "VRay Common" tab are not that relevant, so let's jump right to the "VRay" tab! To override Maya's environment check "Override Environment", then I usually tint the blue color to a more white shade, but that's optional (Fig.03). First, as this is a demo, the resolution is locked to 600*450 and it only supports 200 objects in the scene. Ok, so now VRay is loaded, and we are ready to set some preferences. When that is done, hit the render Settings button and choose VRay (Fig.02)! Then scroll down until you find "vrayformaya" and check both Loaded and Auto Load and press "close" (Fig.01).
#Vray tutorial install
Then just install it simple as that! To load the plug-in, go to Window > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager. First of all, if you haven't already then get "VRay For Maya" from ChaosGroup ( - you have to create an account). Hi everyone! My name is Dennis and I just got my hands on the "VRay For Maya" demo! A friend asked if I could explain the basics, so here is a very simple tutorial.