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Best Settings for V-Ray (?!)

Ciro Sannino - Auth — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:43:21 +0000

What are the best-of-the-best settings for V-Ray? Here the solution: universal settings by Chaosgroup. Let's investigate if these settings can affects aesthetic quality.

Rendering the Chesterfield Sofa

Austris Cingulis - Auth — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:40:40 +0000

In this video you will learn how to make a complete scene with VRay lights and materials for our Chesteried Sofa: wall paneling, floor, windows, and even the cloth simulation on the sofa.

Modeling the Chesterfield Sofa

Austris Cingulis - Auth — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:22:42 +0000

Learn how to model a complex Chesterfield style sofa step-by-step in 3Ds MAX from this premium video tutorials. Once you know how it's done, modeling tufted furniture becomes easy!

How to get faster caustics

Ciro Sannino - Auth — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:49:06 +0000

Caustics with V-Ray light takes too much time to be calculated? Split light and caustics in 2 different sources: a V-Ray light for normal lighting a standard Spot Light just for caustics. Then get it in few seconds.

V-Ray Caustics in the Pool

Ciro Sannino - Auth — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:53:39 +0000

How to simulate the pool effect using caustics? We need to setup caustics in V-Ray and it's really easy. You just need to know a couple of things and a little secret. Watch the video and try downloading our files.

Xmas bells: Modeling and Rendering

Austris Cingulis - Auth — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:45:52 +0000

How to model Xmas bells in 3ds max and set up the render in V-Ray. This is the first video of Austris Cingulis on Cg Blog. We're excited to start "Premium Subscription" in January 2012.

Poligonal modeling technique for 3ds Max

Ciro Sannino - Auth — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:13:04 +0000

From January 2012 Austris Cingulis will be in CG BLOG as expert contributor for modeling / texturing and rendering with V-Ray. Togheter we are starting CG Blog Premium.

How to render faster Dof in V-Ray with Shade Map

Ciro Sannino - Auth — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:16:18 +0000

Have you ever rendered with Depth of Field effect in V-Ray? There's a significant increase in rendering time. We can use an hidden feature called Shademap to reduce time rendering with Dof directly in V-Ray.

Playing with V-Ray glass

Ciro Sannino - Auth — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:30:25 +0000

In this post you can learn how to use Fog color options to simulate warm glass and more. It's a really easy way, you just to know a couple of simple things.

Improve your renders with reflection maps.

Ciro Sannino - Auth — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:11:09 +0000

Uniform reflections on the wood are not ideal for aged woods. In that case we need reflections maps to control reflecions. Wood knots, for example, must reflect far less. In this tutorial we see how to do it simply.