SolidRocks
Version:
2.4.0
Date Updated:
08/20/2022 
SolidRocks V2.4 is out !! Support for V-Ray 6 (hotfix 2) and MAX 2013-2023 !
SolidRocks adjusts and optimise all needed Vray parameters to reach the best rendertime/quality ratio.
Learn Vray progressively, see in realtime changes made by SolidRocks when you change resolution/quality.
SolidRocks includes new tools for both VrayMasters and Beginners:
- Support for Max 2020 and V-Ray NEXT!
- Handle The two V-Ray NEXT engines : Adv and GPU (single clic switch !)
- Presets now handle separate settings for each engine for best comfort
- Presets have been revisited for vetter quality in production settings
- IPR button working with the 2 V-Ray next engines
- Bucket and progressive mode for 2 engines
- Denoiser button
- New gamma Workflow by default to match the actual workflows
- All new V-Ray algorithms activated by default : VBAA, Autopilot, SRGB VFB, Gi caustics, dyn thr.
- Rebus Farm/RANCH Computing interoperability
- New "NO GI" method ! Perfect for exterior dome(+sun)+VrayAmbientlight anim setup (fast and flicker free)
- Compatible with MAX Physical Cameras
- Better glossy subdivs algorithm. Materials with low glossiness value have more subdivs.
- SRGB button (Vray VFB) is now managed automatically.
- New special DOF/motion blur preset (based on interior preset, experimental)
- Unified Save feature for easy save management
- Includes MOA Wizard (animation wizard) - More info here !
- DR and BB buttons for network rendering
- FlyThrough animation Wizard !
- Compatible with SigerShaders
- 1 click for complete Vray setup !
- Modular and small interface (GUI)
- mini preview for fast feedback
- auto Exposure and Auto White balance tools
- friendly and Very simple usage
- Full LWF gamma correction with useful options
- modifiable presets : exterior, interior...
- learn Vray watching SolidRocks at work !
- shareLightcache tool to speedup slaves warmup
- materials and lights optimisation for best rendertimes
- switch from draft to production settings in one click !
- gain time... Lot of time !!
New Vray users can also learn essential rules of Vray, observing changes made by SolidRocks when resolution and/or quality are changed.
Vray Masters can customise SR and presets and use SolidRocks as a custom settings automator.
note : This is a commercial script. (FREE LITE version available on website !)
As always, Have FUN with SolidRocks !
Version Requirement:
Max 2013 to max2023 and V-Ray 2.4 to Vray 6 hotfix2
Comments
Thank you Subburn for
Thank you Subburn for SolidRocks!!
Guys, this is a great plugin. I recommend everyone try it!
SolidRocks is an excellent
SolidRocks is an excellent tool!! I have try it and really it makes thinks much easier and a lot much faster.
Excelled work
I am realy wondering what else is going to have the next version and I can not wait to get it in my hands.
keep it up Jerome
www.pixelart3d.com
I use Vray 1.5Sp4a and max
I use Vray 1.5Sp4a and max 2010 X64.
Works really well :)
Allows fast scene setup.
His free flythrough animation Wizar script is really usefull too.
good job :)
pro : www.bziegler.com
IT's good. But i think our
IT's good.
But i think our work need the more creativity!A excellence CG need you constantly adjust.You can't let our work be like to operate a machine.
tang
hi jerome, im still waiting
hi jerome,
im still waiting for the NON-GI tools :)
i think if its GI only it should be made aware that its only for GI modification...
but why not just include non-gi settings? they very much determin the render times as well
which sampler is being used, what divisions, the global subdivision multiplier has a great effect on over all speed, then noise threshold etc.
there are all these options for non-GI, please let me know when you have included them
ian
// www.v-motion.co //
This script rocks. It's so
This script rocks. It's so much of a time saver that it's hard to believe how I could work without it until now. Definitely buying it and recommend everyone that works daily with vray to do the same.
With out a doubt Jerome and
With out a doubt Jerome and his Scripts rock!! I use it, love it and recomend it to everyone. I have had great success with it personally and commercially...it's reliable, fast and easy to use! my only comment would be to raise the price as it's worth far more!!
Keep up the great work Jerome!
Kind regards,
Luke
@simons You are very unfair!
@simons
You are very unfair! Why do you discharge all your problems at scriptspot and not in the forum at solidrocks.subburb.com?? That's the place where you, as you have bought your software there, should talk to the developer of the software! Not here, where programmers (and designers) show their work. By the way: you didn't read the whole answer of jerome. Otherwise you would not again claim "light subdivisions are set to a wrong number". Jerome has an open ear for questions about solidrocks, so you should not scream into the world how "bad" solidrocks allegedly is.
solidrocks rocks!
www.zwischendrin.com
Hi simons, you're right
Hi simons,
you're right about manual. it would be a great addition. i agree.
BTW there's a lot of explanations into solidrocks website, into videos and forum. i'm on forum every day to give support to customers if needed.
about materials :
- if checked,the "auto glossies subdivs" option modifies at render time the refr/refr glossies value, according to the actual preset.
- if checked, the "interp glossies" forces all material refl and/or refr (at render time) to be interpolated in irradiance map, if the glossiness value is <= thresold specified in preset.
I don't understand what you mean with red under bitmap problem. Feel free to post in solidrocks forum to see that problem together.
about color mapping :
100% reinhard ? this makes non sense. the reinhard color mapping authorise from 100% linear to 100% exponential. the goal is to try to keep maximum amount of linear to get a full LWF render. You can low down a little bit your Vray camera exposure do achieve this. Make first an autoexpo to have a good starting point.
SolidRocks Autoexpo works only with Vray Physical cameras, and that's normal.
Using standard cameras instead of using Vray Physical cameras when making Vray renderings is just like using microsoft paint instead of photoshop to tweak images...
About light optimisation : SolidRocks adjusts values related to rendering time/quality optimisation. it does NOT manage lights intensity ! It would be very hard for a program to know what's in your mind... but that's an idea !
About Lightcache and irradiance map.
SolidRocks is a deep optimizer and need to manage almost every parameters into irrad map and lightcache to get really optimised settings. it makes changes deeper than we can reasonably do manually. Some of these values are resolution dependant and needs to be ajusted according to the actual resolution (irrmap min and max, lightcache subdivs, irrmap DE radius, etc..).
But, again, you can tweak everything via the preset editor and make exactly what you want into your personal preset(s).
about Hsph subdivs :
Sorry but, again, you're Wrong:
straight from the help :
Global subdivs multiplier - this will multiply all subdivs values everywhere during rendering; you can use this to quickly increase/decrease sampling quality everywhere. This affects everything, except for the lightmap, photon map, caustics and aa subdivs. Everything else (dof, moblur, irradiance map, brute-force GI, area lights, area shadows, glossy reflections/refractions) is affected by this parameter.
As you can read, irradiance map is affected by global multiplier...
About interior lighting :
I very often lighten my interior scenes with only Vray Sun+Sky. but you can do as you want ! i don't see where is the problem... If you prefer adding interior artifical lights, than.. just do it ! Solidrocks will make autoexpo according to the resulting preview render. no problem about that.
just to say, here's a very popular tutorial of interior lighting with Vray:
http://vray.us/vray_tutorials/rendering_vray_interior_tutorial.shtml
In this tutorial you can see an interior scene lit with only one exterior light.
And, in chapter 6, you're asked to reduce the hsph value to compensate the increase of the global multiplier...
I do believe that solidrocks helps users to go in the good way, encouraging them to use VrayPhysical cam and sky and helping them to manage camera exposure. More than that, users can observe changes made by solidrocks to learn progressively the Vray core.
The mini preview is tiny, yes.. It's a compromise between size and fast render time.
i'll try to improve this part to give it more interactivity.
Best regards, hope to see you into the forum and discuss about new features coming.
jerome Prévost (Subburb)
first of all thanks for
first of all thanks for answering after my harsh words.
my biggest interest is that of a manual. this would be of great help. some options are selfexplanatory, but some aren't.
there are a lot of things which bothered and still bother me.
-materials: optimization of my materials made a strange red under bitmap, output, enable color map.
-color mapping: i have tried about 3-4 scenes of mine. there is no chance to switch the slider lower than 100% reinhard without red areas. so it is impossible to achieve a lwf. i am using vray physical cam. what i meant is that i use the standard settings. by the way: your program can't render with 3dsmax standard cameras, a popup appears.
-apply lights: what sense does an optimization make if the intensity is not optimized?
according to vray skills and values for hemispheric subdivs go here:
http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/render_params_advancedimap.htm
low values can produce a blotchy result. my words.
and most of all i don't understand why you change the vray settings under light cache and irradiance map totally. chaosgroup has definately made research on it and the standard values actually make sense. besides i haven't seen an interior scene yet which only had one light source from the outside like in your tutorial. there are always lights inside to brighten up the scene.
i understand that solidrocks is not a one click solution for high quality renders (and there never will be one for complex renderers), but it should at least point the user into the right direction.
one more thing: the 90x60 pixels preview of auto exposure and auto white balance is actually of no great help. what about a magnify option or bigger resolution?
thanks for reading and don't take my words too hard
regards