Rendering

i am also wondering if there is any way to disable dof for image planes? this would be very useful for quick preview renders with the physical camera dof enabled A VFB background is not affected but very limited with its placement, enviroment back...

When searching online on how to deepen shadows in Vray for Maya with Ambient Occlusion, it is said you need to add a ExtraTex Render Element and in that you then need to add a Vray Dirt Texture and then you need to composite it. A very cumbersome ...

It would be great if the VRaySky also had a night option, with moon and stars.

I believe RenderMan and 1 or 2 other render engines support checkpointing, where there render will periodically save its render progress so if the frame is interupted or stopped, that another render node may be able ton continue where the frame la...

DreamWorks recently unveiled what they call cryptoDeep - cryptomatte support for Deep EXR that supports transparency. This would be incredibly useful for situations with cards with opacity mattes. I believe they said the source code is in the late...