Tagged 'VRay'

The Autodesk Material Converter is a commercial script for all 3ds Max and 3ds Max Design users starting from release 2011 and up who need optimized materials for mental ray, V-Ray or VR applications. With one click all Autodesk Material Library materials are converted into Arch & Design or V-Ray materials. Conversion to Standard materials takes only two clicks

The major adavantage will be an increase in rendering speed (on average 35%) plus it will give you the flexibility you need for your material fine tuning. and of course you don't want to manually convert materials which are coming in from AutoCAD, Revit and Inventor into 3ds Max (Design)

Most VR applications need Standard materials to work with. The conversion to Standard works from Arch & Design or Vray materials

In addition to material conversion the script checks if there are double materials inside the scene. If they are there, they will be changed into instances, keeping the number of materials as low as can be.

New features in v2.5!

• conversion from Arch&Design to V-Ray and back...it's there!
• conversion of all Autodesk maps
• conversion of some V-Ray specific maps or MentalRay specific maps

This script aims to replace standard 3dsmax's Batch Render and imitates Houdini Output Node workflow. Using it you can specify rendering parameters - frame size, frame number, output path - directly to camera object, so every camera in scene 'knows' what it intended to render. Additional functionality is Lighting Assignment - you can specify which light will be turn on or off for selected camera during the rendering.

1.18:

• Support for 3ds max 2023 Update fixed

1.17:

• Corona and Vray Sun inside Daylight System fixed (thanks to busseynova for reporting)

1.16:

• CoronaSun supported inside Daylight System

1.15:

• Don't Save Render Elements Checkbox (Thanks to antomor)
• Limited support for camera objects in xref scene files (Only root objects in first level xrefs. Cameras in nested xrefs not supported)

1.13 Bugfix:

• Deadline submission should work now
  

1.12 New Feature:

• Deadline support.
  Very basic imlementation, it allows you to submit your jobs on a deadline server. Enter deadline repository address and check "Use Deadline" checkbox. Other checkbox doesn't matter in this case ("Net render", "Show Submit Dialog").
  Probably it requires Deadline 3ds max Submitter installed. I didn't have a chance to check it on a clean machine.

1.11 Features and fixes:

• State sets support added
• "projectname" keyword added which resolves to project's folder name
• other fixes and improvements

1.10.3b Fixes:

• Crash when vray ir/lcache maps are set to auto-save
• Region render was not set properly during the rendering

This is major update of the script, so it may not be as stable as before. Backup scenes or cameras at least before running this version. More information can be found here - 1.10b Multiple presets for each camera

Previous updates:

1.10.2b Fixes:

• Problems with render elements paths
• Copy/paste of render region settings
• Properly convert render region values when change resolution

New features:

• Multiple presets for each camera
• New keyword %presetname% to support multiple presets
• Distributed rendering checkbox added to vray common settings
• Bugfix - Net render not starting after cancelling during local rendering.
• Improved performance with scenes with lots of cameras
• Added support of Vray RT as a production renderer
• Added support of using MFRender script to render scenes through BatchCamera script.
• Bugfix - Error was popping up sometimes during drag-n-drop
• Bugfix - Render elements didn't render in certain conditions
• Bugfix - Pre-render/post-render scripts didn't work on network rendering
• Bugfix - Select All and Toggle All buttons didn't work properly

Here are some details: http://usakhelo.github.io/batchcam/batchcam-1.9.20.html

Frankly the default 3dsMax render settings bug me. They don't deal with modern cameras. The proxy settings are hard coded and can't be changed. There's no easy way to create over-scanned frame without a calculator. So I've written my own tool to fix these problems.

There several rollouts in this tool, each dealing with a separate task.

This is the updated version of my First Script which u can use to change Render Engines. Am planning to add more render engines if i get their RenderClass.names. I would like to add other renderers too but i need their rendererclass names. You can see how to get that at the end of the video. Hope you enjoy this simple script.

UPDATE:

Version 4 Available HERE

OLD VERSIONS:

v3.00b screenshot: