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Lights statistic to V-Ray Profiler

add a lights statistic feature to the V-Ray Profiler. It would be very helpful to analyze how much each light contributes to render times. This would make debugging very complex scenes much easier.
Andrei Mikhalenka over 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Rendering 8 Declined

Ambient light for DMP workflows

Please keep Ambient light object as it is the only way to render projection setups for DMP and for using branding background for color sensitive motion design jobs. The ambient light is the only way to keep a get a flat lighting output from V-Ray ...
Akos Kiss over 1 year ago in V-Ray for Cinema 4D / Lights 1 Declined

Transparency for rendered export elements such as shadows or lighting

Many architects export rendered elements such as shadows, lighting or occlusions to use as underlays and overlays with linework. However, VRay only exports these with a black background. For example, if you wish to use these rendered elements unde...
James Churchill over 1 year ago in V-Ray for Rhino / Rendering 0 Pending

Savable workspaces

It would be nice if there was a possibility to save workspaces (like in Adobe Photoshop, etc.). For example, I'd like to save the render window in a specific size on my second monitor. And it would be nice to be able to have the main V-Ray window ...
Daniel Olsen over 1 year ago in V-Ray for Sketchup / User interface 0 Pending

Purchase the rights for old Mental Ray plugins so the scene converter can import them

Is there any way Chaos could buy up the rights to make scene converter work with old Mental Ray scenes? I would love to be able to open up some old projects and freshen them up.
Justin Dowling over 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Workflow & Tools 0 Declined

Displacement in Proxy Objects

Allow the Displacement map to be visible on Proxy objects. Currently, scanned models have relief maps that generate the geometry during rendering, ensuring a light mesh in the viewport. The displacement map contributes greatly to realism and would...
henrique barros over 1 year ago in V-Ray for Sketchup / Materials & Maps 0 Pending

save .mat when export as VrayProxy

I think that adding this option could improve this process, sometimes I export objects and 3ds crash and I couldnt save changes and I need to redo the operation again, saving the .mat could save me time
Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Tellez over 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Objects | Geometry 0 Declined

Make v-ray for the iPad version of sketchup

a lot of us use sketch up on iPad pro, would be so helpful
Muriel Wilkens almost 2 years ago in V-Ray for Sketchup / Assets, Data exchange & Compatibility 0 Pending

Vantage License without V-Ray License not only for 3DSMax but also for SKP

From Idea in the Vantage Idea Portal: https://chaosvantage.ideas.aha.io/ideas/VANTAGE-I-74 Many of my students use Vantage for rendrering final animation and final rendering too, using V-Ray only to setup materials. 3DS Max users can install V-Ray...
Aleksandar Atanasov almost 2 years ago in V-Ray for Sketchup / Other 1 Pending

Global option "don't show prepasses"

If I change small details at a scene after a rendering is done than I would like to start a new rendering without the previous rendering is reset and no prepasses are shown. So I could move the mouse to the interesting areas per "follow mouse" and...
Michael Fritzsche almost 2 years ago in V-Ray for Rhino / Rendering 0 Pending