To get the most out of your rendering you can make use of Blenders built-in node-editor. And to easily distribute these proxies in your scene you can make use of Blenders particle system and weight-painting. Blender is capable of creating these proxy objects for V-Ray so that you can have hundreds of trees with billions of polygons in your scene without any slowdown of viewport or mesh-export. One key-technique for fast and easy vegetation setups is the use of V-Ray Proxies. A blue sky is all nice and fine, but without some vegetation the outside world behind the window will be just boring. You will also learn how to use a camera-loop with fly-through rendering to efficiently render out a series of images of your scene by re-using the GI-calculations.Įven though we are rendering an indoor scene, it is also important to create an outside environment.

In the main part of this tutorial Nicolò is walking you through the setup of an architectural indoor rendering, explaining light-setup, materials, textures and render settings. Even the most subtle details can turn an ordinary white material into a vibrant wall surface. Nicolò shows you how to apply textures to the different material channels, which mapping to use and how to setup displacement and dirt-textures.

In this tutorial you will learn how to setup and tweak glossy and fresnel effects while keeping render times on a reasonable level.īut to really make your materials believable the most important thing is to know how use textures. Since in real life you rarely have a perfect diffuse surface it is essential for photo reealistic rendering to fully understand how to use subtle glossiness to give your materials the final polish. In this over 3.5 hour tutorial you will learn all the professional techniques, hidden tricks and rendering cheats like V-Ray-Proxies, Particle Scattering, Render Passes and Compositing that will help you to really master the Blender to V-Ray Rendering Process.

Now you can take it to the next level and create believable materials for your architectural renderings.

In the two previous parts by Sebastian Koenig you have learned how to setup your Blender to V-Ray Rendering Pipeline and fine tune Lightcache, Irradiance Map and DMC Sampler. Blender to V-Ray: Volume 3 In the third part of the V-Ray-Blender tutorial series Nicolò Zubbini will show you intermediate to advanced shading and rendering workflows with V-Ray and Blender.

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