V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Essential Training

Course Overview

Get up and running with the V-Ray Next rendering engine inside 3ds Max. Learn how to leverage the many tools and features found in this powerful rendering solution.

Course Circullum

Introduction

Creating renders using V-Ray Next
Software versions used in this course
Working with 3ds Max projects
A note on gamma and unit settings

1. New in V-Ray Next

Adaptive Dome Light setting
Metal/rough workflow
Rendering in the cloud (beta)
Switch material
NVIDIA AI Denoiser and render element specific denoising
New hair material (update 1 Glint and Glitter)
Lighting Analysis tool
V-Ray plugin material and texture
Drag-and-drop V-Ray assets
Point-and-shoot camera tools
Update 1: Viewport IPR
Update 1: GPU improvements (bucket, dispersion, and faster fog)

2. V-Ray Key Lighting Tools

An introduction to the V-Ray light
The V-Ray Plane light
The V-Ray Dome light
The V-Ray Sphere light
The V-Ray Mesh light
The V-Ray Disc light
The V-Ray IES light
V-Ray Sun and Sky
Enabling the Environment skylight

3. Working with Global Illumination

Using irradiance mapping: Part 1
Using irradiance mapping: Part 2
Using Light Cache
Using Brute Force GI

4. V-Ray Materials

The V-Ray Material: Diffuse color
The V-Ray Material: Reflection
The V-Ray Material: Clear glass
The V-Ray Material: Colored and frosted glass
Creating a translucency effect
V-Ray hair shader
Car paint shader
Using the VRmat format
The V-Ray alSurface material
Using MDL materials

5. V-Ray Maps

An introduction to V-Ray maps
V-Ray Color
V-Ray Curvature
V-Ray Dirt
V-Ray Edges Tex
V-Ray HDRI
V-Ray MultiSub Tex
V-Ray Normal Map
V-Ray Triplanar

6. Quality Control Using Image Sampling

Image sampling explained
Progressive sampling engine
Bucket sampling engine
IPR
Resumable rendering
Fixing super bright sampling problems

7. The V-Ray Physical Camera

Physical Camera setup
Physical Camera controls
Controlling exposure
Depth of field
Creating a Motion Blur effect
Perspective correction
Rendering panoramas

8. V-Ray GPU

An introduction to V-Ray GPU
Using V-Ray GPU
The GPU UI: V-Ray tab
The GPU UI: Performance tab

9. Working with Render Elements

Render elements explained
Pipeline decisions
Render elements workflow
Outputting our basic render elements
Compositing the basic elements
Using elements for image manipulation
Adding DOF using a Z-Depth pass
Light Select
Multimatte
Cryptomatte
Sample Rate
The Denoiser element
ExtraTex (Dirt/AO)

10. V-Ray Frame Buffer

UI overview
The Color Correction controls
Using the History tool
Tools for interactive rendering
Interactive Lens FX

11. V-Ray FX Tools

Using V-Ray Geometry: Fur
Using V-Ray Geometry: Proxies
Using V-Ray Geometry: Clipper
V-Ray Instancer
Stereoscopic VR rendering
V-Ray metaballs
DOF in a perspective viewport
Using Render Mask
Aerial perspective
Displacement
Volume grid
V-Ray mesh viewer

Conclusion

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