Maya – Vray Material basics

In this Quick Tutorial I want to show you the basics of setting up a Vray Material in Maya. It is a really straight forward renderer so its pretty easy to use.
This video will show you how to use reflection and refraction parameters inside the Vray Material and will show you what the important checkboxes like fresnel and ior are doing.

V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max – EXR

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Dynamic loading of tiled OpenEXR textures through the VRayHDRI texture.

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Daylight set up in an interior scene

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How to create a simple day light setup using V-Ray and Maya. More info

Car Paint Material

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V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max – Car Paint Material

VRayCarPaintMtl – Material with accurate flakes simulation

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Using the water level option to clip geometry

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V-Ray for SketchUp – Using the water level option to clip geometry – V-Ray Tutorials

The water level option in V-Ray allows you to clip the surface geometry in places where the displacement map value is below the specified threshold. This is useful for clip mapping a displacement map value below which geometry will be clipped. Learn about the water level option in this video tutorial.

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V-Ray for SketchUp – Caustics – V-Ray Tutorials

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How to create a photorealistic rendering of water inside of a swimming pool using caustic effects in V-Ray for SketchUp.

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V-Ray Distance Texture Map

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VRayDistanceTex — Create a wide range of effects based on the distance between objects in the scene

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Bump and Displacement

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In this video tutorial there are the most important news on Bump Mapping and Displace Mapping in SketchUp

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ZDepth

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How to create a Z-Depth channel and how to use that channel in post-processing to add a depth of field effect to an image.

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Light Select

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VRayLightSelect – Render element to extract the contribution of individual lights

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