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Add layers and masks cfr Composite map to the VrayCompTex

As per this thread: https://forums.chaos.com/forum/v-ray-for-3ds-max-forums/v-ray-for-3ds-max-general/1229037-haircard-shader Having layers and masks (similar to the Composite map of 3dsMax) in the VrayCompTex would be a great addition as right no...
Ashley Van Iseghem about 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 3 Declined

Vray-Scene Manager

Maybe make Vray-Scene manager, similar to asseble huge scenes with xRefs in 3ds max, but much smarter and faster, maybe like assembling vray scenes in one max file. Or even better example is USD workflow, that looks very cool for big scenes and th...
Andrei Mikhalenka over 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Workflow & Tools 4 Declined

Resolution-dependent displacement subdivision

I usually render at 5K for production, but sometimes I need higher resolutions (e.g. 10K for a denoiser workflow). The problem is that with 3D displacement set to view dependent, the look of the displacement changes at higher resolutions. In some ...
Ashley Van Iseghem 9 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Rendering 5 Declined

Evironment override map

Currently if we need to put a background map into the render we need to use 3ds Max Environment and Effects, I think this is a little confusing, could we have a dedicated slot into the Environment tab in V-Ray Tab? similar to Corona Scene environm...
Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Tellez over 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Environment & Effects 3 Declined

Adding render nodes mid-render

In V-Ray Distributed Rendering,I think we should have the ability to add and remove servers while the render is going on.Sometimes I want to use my main workstation for other stuff, but when I am AFK/Sleeping, I want to use my workstation to join ...
Kryptik 42 11 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Rendering 3 Declined

Add “Enable” checkbox for Proxy and VRay Fur in VRay Lister

In certain cameras of large scenes, we can turn of some VRay Furs and VRay Proxies outside this camera to save GPU RAM.
Hill Lam 12 months ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Other 3 Declined

Perpetual License

Hi, is there a possibility to have perpetual licenses again
Carlos Alberto Rodriguez Tellez about 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Other 1 Declined

Load in cryptomatte alpha to act as render region matte

It would be great if you could load in a black and white map jpeg sequence (or an PNG with unpremult alpha) to act as a custom render region. So if you need to re-render just one element in your shot you can isolate it and do it quickly. Thanks
Sean Lewis over 1 year ago in V-Ray for 3ds Max / Rendering 5 Declined

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

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