http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html ###RSS_LANGUAGE Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:16:14 +0200 mm_forum powered by TYPO3 60 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=162 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:42:51 +0200 Wow, I really like your style :) made with vred essentials? Hi thanks Yes this Work done with Vred essentials saneg wrote:

Wow,

I really like your style made with vred essentials?


Hi thanks

Yes this Work done with Vred essentials ]]> Gallery elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=161 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:19:18 +0200 Wow, I really like your style :) made with vred essentials?
I really like your style made with vred essentials? ]]> Gallery saneg http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=160 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:16:33 +0200 Hi guys here are my next Rendering done with Vred Essential. Hope you like it. CGI and Retouching: www.cengil.com Backplate and HDRI by: Maground https://www.maground.com Hope you like it.


CGI and Retouching: www.cengil.com
Backplate and HDRI by: Maground https://www.maground.com ]]> Gallery elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=159 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:37:03 +0200 Hallo, haben sie das bild mit "premultiply alpha" off gerendert? Falls sie in 32BIT gerendert haben konvertieren Sie bitte die Bilder erst in 8BIT und fügen Sie sie dann zusammen. Photoshop kann im allgemeinen nicht sehr gut mit Alphakanälen umgehen, hierzu gibt es noch die Möglichkeit im Photoshop unter Layer-->Matte--> remove ehite matte und remove black matte.
haben sie das bild mit "premultiply alpha" off gerendert?

Falls sie in 32BIT gerendert haben konvertieren Sie bitte die Bilder erst in 8BIT und fügen Sie sie dann zusammen.

Photoshop kann im allgemeinen nicht sehr gut mit Alphakanälen umgehen, hierzu gibt es noch die Möglichkeit im Photoshop unter Layer-->Matte--> remove ehite matte und remove black matte.



]]> General questions about VRED Professional saneg http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=158 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:31:03 +0200 Welcome to our forum, and yes, it is possible to import camera animation from Maya into VRED. You can do this by baking your Camera animation and export your scene as VRML file. Afterwards you can import vrml animations into VRED. In the next version of VRED it will be possible to import all animations, including camera animations via FBX file. Hope that helps
and yes, it is possible to import camera animation from Maya into VRED. You can do this by baking your Camera animation and export your scene as VRML file. Afterwards you can import vrml animations into VRED.

In the next version of VRED it will be possible to import all animations, including camera animations via FBX file.


Hope that helps

]]> General questions about VRED Professional saneg http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=157 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:25:05 +0200 Hallo, ich habe separat zwei Bereiche gerendert. Mit der Hilfe "RenderLayer-VisibelnAlpha" habe ich entsprechende Berieche ausgeblendet. Wenn ich die zwei Bilder zusammengelegt habe, erschien auf dem Rand eine Linie - siehe beigefügtes Bild. In "ImageExportSettings" habe ich "Supersampling" High und "Export image with alpha channel" eingestellt. R.Schubert
ich habe separat zwei Bereiche gerendert. Mit der Hilfe "RenderLayer-VisibelnAlpha" habe ich entsprechende Berieche ausgeblendet. Wenn ich die zwei Bilder zusammengelegt habe, erschien auf dem Rand eine Linie - siehe beigefügtes Bild. In "ImageExportSettings" habe ich "Supersampling" High und "Export image with alpha channel" eingestellt.

R.Schubert ]]> General questions about VRED Professional schubert http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=156 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:14:57 +0200 It´s my first post, so i want to say hello to everybody. I probably got a simple question, who can i get my maya camera animation to VRED? Thanks.
I probably got a simple question, who can i get my maya camera animation to VRED?

Thanks. ]]> General questions about VRED Professional flomo1 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=155 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:39:54 +0200 Hallo Herr Schubert, wenn Sie Workstations mit max. 2 Prozessoren meinen, würde ich Ihnen mit unserem jetzigen Kenntnisstand 6Kern Intel Prozessoren mit 3.33Ghz ( Typ X5680 ) empfehlen, entsprechende 8/12 Kern Prozessoren von AMD konnten wir bisher noch nicht testen. Unsere bisherige Erfahrung ist das Intel Prozessoren pro Takt etwas schneller sind und das Hyperthreading ca 20-25% bringt und man höher getaktetere Prozessoren bekommen kann (Intel 3.33Ghz, AMD 2.4 Ghz). In den nächsten Tagen werden wir die Gelegenheit haben ein entsprechendes AMD System zu testen, dann kann ich Ihnen detaillierte Infos geben. Viele Grüße Matthias Stiller
wenn Sie Workstations mit max. 2 Prozessoren meinen, würde ich Ihnen mit unserem jetzigen Kenntnisstand 6Kern Intel Prozessoren mit 3.33Ghz ( Typ X5680 ) empfehlen, entsprechende 8/12 Kern Prozessoren von AMD konnten wir bisher noch nicht testen. Unsere bisherige Erfahrung ist das Intel Prozessoren pro Takt etwas schneller sind und das Hyperthreading ca 20-25% bringt und man höher getaktetere Prozessoren bekommen kann (Intel 3.33Ghz, AMD 2.4 Ghz).

In den nächsten Tagen werden wir die Gelegenheit haben ein entsprechendes AMD System zu testen, dann kann ich Ihnen detaillierte Infos geben.

Viele Grüße

Matthias Stiller ]]> General questions about VRED Professional Matthias http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=154 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:01:01 +0200 Hallo, wir planen Einkauf einen neuen Rechner. Was würden Sie mit Rücksicht auf die maximale Leistung empfehlen - Prozessor Intel oder AMD. Benchmark auf Ihren Seiten spricht zugunsten Intel Prozessoren, aber ist schon älteres Datums. Wie ist der aktuelle Stand? AMD bietet mehr Kerne in Prozessor, wird immer noch Intel schneller. Danke. Roman Schubert
wir planen Einkauf einen neuen Rechner. Was würden Sie mit Rücksicht auf die maximale Leistung empfehlen - Prozessor Intel oder AMD. Benchmark auf Ihren Seiten spricht zugunsten Intel Prozessoren, aber ist schon älteres Datums. Wie ist der aktuelle Stand? AMD bietet mehr Kerne in Prozessor, wird immer noch Intel schneller.

Danke.

Roman Schubert ]]> General questions about VRED Professional schubert http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=153 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:03:09 +0200 To do this, you need to turn on the display of the LightTransforms group first. Go to Edit->Preferences->Main Window and turn on Show Internal Nodes. Now a group called light transforms shows up in your scene graph. Each Child (Material Group) of this node represents the transformations done to the lightsource. So you can group these Material groups together, move them to another parent (for example to attach headlights to a car) and so on. However, you shouldn´t change the graph below the material group since this will eventually break things, so be carefull (that´s the reason why this group is hidden by default). Hope this helps
Now a group called light transforms shows up in your scene graph. Each Child (Material Group) of this node represents the transformations done to the lightsource. So you can group these Material groups together, move them to another parent (for example to attach headlights to a car) and so on. However, you shouldn´t change the graph below the material group since this will eventually break things, so be carefull (that´s the reason why this group is hidden by default).

Hope this helps ]]> General questions about VRED Photo michael http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=152 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:06:30 +0200 It's really not very pretty but the main thing is that it works! Cool, thank you! Is it possible to move or rotate a group of lights at once? General questions about VRED Photo joswald http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=151 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:41:21 +0200 Sadly duplicating lightsources doesn´t work at the moment but we are trying to fix this. However there is a workaround for it, although it is not very pretty: You need to delete everything in the scene except the lightsources you want to keep and the light transform group (if it is shown in our scenegraph. By default this groub is hidden). The save the scene to a new file. Reload your old file and add the scene with the light sources you just saved. This should work fine although it will create another light transform group in your scenegraph.
However there is a workaround for it, although it is not very pretty:

You need to delete everything in the scene except the lightsources you want to keep and the light transform group (if it is shown in our scenegraph. By default this groub is hidden). The save the scene to a new file. Reload your old file and add the scene with the light sources you just saved.
This should work fine although it will create another light transform group in your scenegraph. ]]> General questions about VRED Photo michael http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=150 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:31:23 +0200 Hello! Is there a way to duplicate/clone lights in VRED? Or is it possible to ex- and import lights created in VRED? Thank you!
Is there a way to duplicate/clone lights in VRED? Or is it possible to ex- and import lights created in VRED?

Thank you! ]]> General questions about VRED Photo joswald http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=149 Fri, 28 May 2010 09:17:45 +0200 Hallo, bitte laden Sie sich nochmals die Version 4.21 von der Supportseite herunter. Nach der Installation dieser sollte das Problem nicht mehr auftauchen. Es scheint hier wohl bei manchen Installationen ein Problem gegeben zu haben, dass aber nun behoben ist. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcus Fritzen (PI-VR)
bitte laden Sie sich nochmals die Version 4.21 von der Supportseite herunter. Nach der Installation dieser sollte das Problem nicht mehr auftauchen.
Es scheint hier wohl bei manchen Installationen ein Problem gegeben zu haben, dass aber nun behoben ist.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Marcus Fritzen (PI-VR) ]]> General questions about VRED Professional mfritzen http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=148 Fri, 28 May 2010 07:38:32 +0200 Hallo, ich habe neueste Version installiert - VRED Pro 4.21 - 64bit Leider bei der Erzeugung der Animation kommt es regelmässig zum Absturz. Ganz konkret Animation - CurveEditor - CreateBlock .... Bei meinem Kollegen läuft es genauso. R.Schubert ich habe neueste Version installiert - VRED Pro 4.21 - 64bit
Leider bei der Erzeugung der Animation kommt es regelmässig zum Absturz. Ganz konkret Animation - CurveEditor - CreateBlock ....
Bei meinem Kollegen läuft es genauso.

R.Schubert ]]> General questions about VRED Professional schubert http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=147 Fri, 21 May 2010 12:00:51 +0200 Dear Customers, today we are announcing a hotfix release for VRED Professional 4.21 Below you will find the changes Please download the latest software to ensure fluent work. best regards the PI-VR Team The VRED Professional 4.21 Hotfix Release contains the following fixes: material editor: fixed bad layout of reflective plastic material material library: fixed speed issue and duplicated environments with switch materials. raytracing: fixed frosted glass not rendering correctly, including better handling of total internal refraction raytracing: fixed black pixels in glass material raytracing: fixed bad shadows of transparent nurbs surfaces raytracing: fixed material quality overrides raytracing: fixed linux raytracing of nurbs raytracing: improved linux raytracing performance rendering: fixed environment image support for 32 bit exr files and exr files with alpha channels rendering: fixed wrong indirect illumination in measured material in precomputed/Opengl modes selection: much improved speed while selecting many nodes. stl import: fixed crash in ascii/binary detection. Dear Customers,

today we are announcing a hotfix release for VRED Professional 4.21
Below you will find the changes
Please download the latest software to ensure fluent work.

best regards

the PI-VR Team



The VRED Professional 4.21 Hotfix Release contains the following fixes:

material editor: fixed bad layout of reflective plastic material material library: fixed speed issue and duplicated environments with switch materials.
raytracing: fixed frosted glass not rendering correctly, including better handling of total internal refraction
raytracing: fixed black pixels in glass material
raytracing: fixed bad shadows of transparent nurbs surfaces
raytracing: fixed material quality overrides
raytracing: fixed linux raytracing of nurbs
raytracing: improved linux raytracing performance
rendering: fixed environment image support for 32 bit exr files and exr files with alpha channels
rendering: fixed wrong indirect illumination in measured material in precomputed/Opengl modes
selection: much improved speed while selecting many nodes.
stl import: fixed crash in ascii/binary detection.

]]> Announcements saneg http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=146 Tue, 11 May 2010 11:33:39 +0200 Dear Customers, we are proud to announce VRED Professional 4.2 It is available in our download section. for more information check out our homepage Changelog: New Features: cad import: much improved conversion speed on multi core systems. cluster: improved screensaver handling. fileio: improved rhino importer, added instances and layer support. fileio wrl: added optimization modes to the fileio wrl preferences. fileio fbx: added import of animation curves for simple transformations. finalrender pass: added support for more texture formats. finalrender pass: added support for tiled snapshots. finalrender pass: improved render speed. geometry editor:added support to flip nurbs surfaces material editor: added multi selection. material editor: added new texture mapping manipulator movie export: added stereo modi support. optimize: added support for merging line geometries. raytracing: added support for IES Light Profiles raytracing: added direct nurbs raytracing raytracing: added face/vertex normal rendering mode to raytracing raytracing: improved accuracy raytracing: improved update behaviour for the raytracing structure to allow data preparation in raytracing mode and better handling of large scenes raytracing: improved antialiasing/motion blur/depth of field sampling and faster still frame updates rendering: changed behaviour of sphere environment material so there is no need to manually invert the surface normals anymore rendering: added option to set texture size in MM for triplanar and reflective triplanar materials rendering: added measured carpaint material rendering: added support for ICC Profiles in Textures and Image Output (for png, jpg and tif formats) renderlayer: added select nodes. snapshot + still antialiasing: selectable pixel filter. much improved antialiasing quality in opengl render mode. vred essentials: improved interactive render speed by 50%. webserver: made it multi threaded. Bug Fixes: camera editor: fixed possible wrong inital shutter time values. cluster: fixed SRGB texture problem. decorer: didn't work on polygon level. fileio: fixed fbx export on win32 platform. finalrender pass: fixed dialog hiding. image export: fixed possible render error with activated motion blur. light editor: fixed wrong settings after light type changes light editor: fixed selectNode not scrolling to the selected Light in the scenegraph subtree optimize: fixed filtering of geometries. optimize: fixed unnormalized normals after flush transformations raytracing: fixed possible crashes. raytracing: fixed hidden lights still illuminating the scene. raytracing: fixed bad rendering of scene after optimize operations snapshot: replaced opengl accumulation buffer with a high precision software implementation to get rid of possible color artefacts. snapshot: fixed two sided lighting. regards, PI-VR Team Dear Customers,

we are proud to announce VRED Professional 4.2
It is available in our download section. for more information check out our homepage


Changelog:


New Features:

cad import: much improved conversion speed on multi core systems.

cluster: improved screensaver handling.

fileio: improved rhino importer, added instances and layer support.

fileio wrl: added optimization modes to the fileio wrl preferences.

fileio fbx: added import of animation curves for simple transformations.

finalrender pass: added support for more texture formats.
finalrender pass: added support for tiled snapshots.

finalrender pass: improved render speed.

geometry editor:added support to flip nurbs surfaces

material editor: added multi selection.

material editor: added new texture mapping manipulator

movie export: added stereo modi support.

optimize: added support for merging line geometries.

raytracing: added support for IES Light Profiles

raytracing: added direct nurbs raytracing
raytracing: added face/vertex normal rendering mode to raytracing
raytracing: improved accuracy

raytracing: improved update behaviour for the raytracing structure to allow data preparation in raytracing mode and better handling of large scenes

raytracing: improved antialiasing/motion blur/depth of field sampling and faster still frame updates

rendering: changed behaviour of sphere environment material so there is no need to manually invert the surface normals anymore
rendering: added option to set texture size in MM for triplanar and reflective triplanar materials

rendering: added measured carpaint material

rendering: added support for ICC Profiles in Textures and Image Output (for png, jpg and tif formats)

renderlayer: added select nodes.
snapshot + still antialiasing: selectable pixel filter. much improved antialiasing quality in opengl render mode.

vred essentials: improved interactive render speed by 50%.

webserver: made it multi threaded.

Bug Fixes:

camera editor: fixed possible wrong inital shutter time values.
cluster: fixed SRGB texture problem.
decorer: didn't work on polygon level.
fileio: fixed fbx export on win32 platform.
finalrender pass: fixed dialog hiding.
image export: fixed possible render error with activated motion blur.
light editor: fixed wrong settings after light type changes
light editor: fixed selectNode not scrolling to the selected Light in the scenegraph subtree
optimize: fixed filtering of geometries.
optimize: fixed unnormalized normals after flush transformations
raytracing: fixed possible crashes.
raytracing: fixed hidden lights still illuminating the scene.
raytracing: fixed bad rendering of scene after optimize operations
snapshot: replaced opengl accumulation buffer with a high precision software implementation to get rid of possible color artefacts.
snapshot: fixed two sided lighting.

regards,

PI-VR Team ]]> Announcements saneg http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=145 Mon, 03 May 2010 20:58:04 +0200 Hi Matthias Yes absolutelly 4-5 hours is because after work i hav not so much Power to work fast ;-) I think there is possible to do the same stuff much faster. I do all these work on my sparetime.
Yes absolutelly 4-5 hours is because after work i hav not so much Power to work fast

I think there is possible to do the same stuff much faster.
I do all these work on my sparetime. ]]> Gallery elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=144 Mon, 03 May 2010 16:28:06 +0200 4-5 hours is not too bad :) Do you see potential to further reduce the time ?

Do you see potential to further reduce the time ? ]]> Gallery Matthias http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=143 Mon, 03 May 2010 14:48:08 +0200 Hi Michael thanks You are right its a bit too sharp I sharpened it in Photoshop. I think i will fix it. An maybe you dont belive but in Munich are also some Audi on Street, not only BMW ;-)
You are right its a bit too sharp I sharpened it in Photoshop.
I think i will fix it.

An maybe you dont belive but in Munich are also some Audi on Street, not only BMW ]]> Gallery elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=142 Mon, 03 May 2010 14:02:51 +0200 Nice Image :) The only things that bother me are the numberplate ( Audi is not in Munich....) and that the image looks way too sharp, so you have lots of aliasing artefacts (not only on the car, also on the backplate). Did you run a sharpen filter on it in Photoshop? Greetz Michael
The only things that bother me are the numberplate ( Audi is not in Munich....) and that the image looks way too sharp, so you have lots of aliasing artefacts (not only on the car, also on the backplate). Did you run a sharpen filter on it in Photoshop?

Greetz
Michael ]]> Gallery michael http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=141 Mon, 03 May 2010 10:07:09 +0200 Hi Matthias, thanks Yes this is the real model, maybe not the actuall, but its a S5. And yes you are right about some Details i have to worked out in Photoshop. I have tested how fast i can render and finish this work. And i used only approximatelly for shading,organizing,Rendering and Postwork 4-5 hours. And one thing i have to say, this software is really great but to work for Professional Projects i think the limitation of the Rendeoutput is one of the biggest disatvantage Points of t Vred essential. But anyway great Application. S.Cengil www.cengil.com
Yes this is the real model, maybe not the actuall, but its a S5.

And yes you are right about some Details i have to worked out in Photoshop.
I have tested how fast i can render and finish this work.
And i used only approximatelly for shading,organizing,Rendering and Postwork
4-5 hours.

And one thing i have to say, this software is really great but to work for
Professional Projects i think the limitation of the Rendeoutput is one of the biggest disatvantage Points of t Vred essential.
But anyway great Application.

S.Cengil
www.cengil.com ]]> Gallery elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=140 Mon, 03 May 2010 04:38:01 +0200 Hello Sükrü, stunning image :o Is the model the real one ? Regards Matthias PS: There's a small photoshop thingie on the left side of the image (can only be seen when viewing the big picture)
stunning image

Is the model the real one ?

Regards

Matthias

PS: There's a small photoshop thingie on the left side of the image (can only be seen when viewing the big picture) ]]> Gallery Matthias http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=139 Sun, 02 May 2010 21:19:44 +0200 Hi there here is my first Rendering done with Vred essential. Hope you like it. HDRI and Backplate from http://www.maground.com copyright 2010 MAGROUND Rendering and Retouching by Sükrü Cengil at http://www.cengil.com Hope you like it.

HDRI and Backplate from http://www.maground.com
copyright 2010 MAGROUND

Rendering and Retouching by Sükrü Cengil at http://www.cengil.com
]]> Gallery elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=138 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:02:18 +0200 Hi, In VRED Essentials you can only use one EnvironmentMaterial. in the MaterialEditor you can change the environment by replacing the HDRI in the DefaultEnvironment Material. Regards PI-VR
In VRED Essentials you can only use one EnvironmentMaterial.
in the MaterialEditor you can change the environment by replacing the HDRI in the DefaultEnvironment Material.

Regards

PI-VR ]]> General questions about VRED Essentials saneg http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=137 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:33:44 +0200 Hi this is my first Use of Vred Essential and i would know what is the generell Workflow for HDRI Raytracing Lightning. I Know in Vred Photo there is a Enviroment Material to map the enviroment HDR to the Sphere, but in Essential i dont find it or is it not possible to do it in Vred Essential? Workflow for HDRI Raytracing Lightning.

I Know in Vred Photo there is a Enviroment Material to map the enviroment HDR to the Sphere, but in Essential i dont find it or is it not possible to do it in
Vred Essential?

]]> General questions about VRED Essentials elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=136 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:14:07 +0200 cool it works. I thought its enough to only assign the Enviroment to the Car Materials. I dont realize to create a virtual Dome for the Raytracing Mode to make it run correctly. thanks I thought its enough to only assign the Enviroment to the Car Materials.
I dont realize to create a virtual Dome for the Raytracing Mode to make it run correctly.

thanks ]]> General questions about VRED Photo elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=135 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:50:00 +0200 There is simply the environment missing. In Raytracing Mode, the specular reflections are calculated by really intersecting the scene, unlike the glossy and diffuse terms which may come from the connected environment of the material. So you need to create a sphere or other type of geometry around the scene (in the 4.11 version, you need to flip the normals of the sphere as well, so they point inwards to actually see it when you are looking at your car (GeometryEditor-> under swap normals choose "Face and Vertex"). Apply your environment material to the sphere (there should be just one geometry with an environment material directly visible). If you don´t want to actually see the environment but just have the reflections and so on, create a Renderlayer (Rendering->RenderLayer->Right Mouse Button->Create Layer), drag&drop the sphere onto the new layer, turn of primary visibility and press activate. Hope this helps Michael
So you need to create a sphere or other type of geometry around the scene (in the 4.11 version, you need to flip the normals of the sphere as well, so they point inwards to actually see it when you are looking at your car (GeometryEditor-> under swap normals choose "Face and Vertex"). Apply your environment material to the sphere (there should be just one geometry with an environment material directly visible).

If you don´t want to actually see the environment but just have the reflections and so on, create a Renderlayer (Rendering->RenderLayer->Right Mouse Button->Create Layer), drag&drop the sphere onto the new layer, turn of primary visibility and press activate.

Hope this helps
Michael ]]> General questions about VRED Photo michael http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=134 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:09:42 +0200 Hi thanks I think i adjust the most settings right. But it dont looks right. so i upload a some Pictures with the settings. The first picture is the chrome setup and the last picture is the carpaint setup.
I think i adjust the most settings right.
But it dont looks right.

so i upload a some Pictures with the settings. The first picture is the chrome setup and the last picture is the carpaint setup. ]]> General questions about VRED Photo elay1000 http://www.pi-vr.de/forum-data/forum.html?tx_mmforum_pi1%5Baction%5D=list_post&tx_mmforum_pi1%5Bpid%5D=133 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:42:23 +0200 Mmhh, hard to tell. What are your material settings? I assume you use either a MetallicPaintMaterial or an UnicolorPaintMaterial? Maybe you have orange peel turned on and made it too intense? The sharp reflections are caused by the clearcoat layer, which should normally have a reflectivity of about 0.04 (means 4%) and a plain white color. Another cause may be unnormalized normals. You can fix these in the geometry editor by selecting the geometrie and clicking normalize. The black chrome may have 2 causes: Either an environment is missing (so there is actually nothing to reflect) or the trace depth (max reflection depth) isn´t high enough. MetallicPaintMaterial or an UnicolorPaintMaterial? Maybe you have orange peel turned on and made it too intense? The sharp reflections are caused by the clearcoat layer, which should normally have a reflectivity of about 0.04 (means 4%) and a plain white color.

Another cause may be unnormalized normals. You can fix these in the geometry editor by selecting the geometrie and clicking normalize.

The black chrome may have 2 causes: Either an environment is missing (so there is actually nothing to reflect) or the trace depth (max reflection depth) isn´t high enough. ]]> General questions about VRED Photo michael