V-Ray Next for 3ds Max Essential Training

Get up and running with the V-Ray Next rendering engine inside 3ds Max. Learn how to leverage the many tools and features found in this powerful rendering solution.

Introduction

• Creating renders using V-Ray Next
• Software versions used in this course
• Working with 3ds Max projects
• A note on gamma and unit settings

1. New in V-Ray Next

• Adaptive Dome Light setting
• Metal/rough workflow
• Rendering in the cloud (beta)
• Switch material
• NVIDIA AI Denoiser and render element specific denoising
• New hair material (update 1 Glint and Glitter)
• Lighting Analysis tool
• V-Ray plugin material and texture
• Drag-and-drop V-Ray assets
• Point-and-shoot camera tools
• Update 1: Viewport IPR
• Update 1: GPU improvements (bucket, dispersion, and faster fog)

2. V-Ray Key Lighting Tools

• An introduction to the V-Ray light
• The V-Ray Plane light
• The V-Ray Dome light
• The V-Ray Sphere light
• The V-Ray Mesh light
• The V-Ray Disc light
• The V-Ray IES light
• V-Ray Sun and Sky
• Enabling the Environment skylight

3. Working with Global Illumination

• Using irradiance mapping: Part 1
• Using irradiance mapping: Part 2
• Using Light Cache
• Using Brute Force GI

4. V-Ray Materials

• The V-Ray Material: Diffuse color
• The V-Ray Material: Reflection
• The V-Ray Material: Clear glass
• The V-Ray Material: Colored and frosted glass
• Creating a translucency effect
• V-Ray hair shader
• Car paint shader
• Using the VRmat format
• The V-Ray alSurface material
• Using MDL materials

5. V-Ray Maps

• An introduction to V-Ray maps
• V-Ray Color
• V-Ray Curvature
• V-Ray Dirt
• V-Ray Edges Tex
• V-Ray HDRI
• V-Ray MultiSub Tex
• V-Ray Normal Map
• V-Ray Triplanar

6. Quality Control Using Image Sampling

• Image sampling explained
• Progressive sampling engine
• Bucket sampling engine
• IPR
• Resumable rendering
• Fixing super bright sampling problems

7. The V-Ray Physical Camera

• Physical Camera setup
• Physical Camera controls
• Controlling exposure
• Depth of field
• Creating a Motion Blur effect
• Perspective correction
• Rendering panoramas

8. V-Ray GPU

• An introduction to V-Ray GPU
• Using V-Ray GPU
• The GPU UI: V-Ray tab
• The GPU UI: Performance tab

9. Working with Render Elements

• Render elements explained
• Pipeline decisions
• Render elements workflow
• Outputting our basic render elements
• Compositing the basic elements
• Using elements for image manipulation
• Adding DOF using a Z-Depth pass
• Light Select
• Multimatte
• Cryptomatte
• Sample Rate
• The Denoiser element
• ExtraTex (Dirt/AO)

10. V-Ray Frame Buffer

• UI overview
• The Color Correction controls
• Using the History tool
• Tools for interactive rendering
• Interactive Lens FX

11. V-Ray FX Tools

• Using V-Ray Geometry: Fur
• Using V-Ray Geometry: Proxies
• Using V-Ray Geometry: Clipper
• V-Ray Instancer
• Stereoscopic VR rendering
• V-Ray metaballs
• DOF in a perspective viewport
• Using Render Mask
• Aerial perspective
• Displacement
• Volume grid
• V-Ray mesh viewer

Conclusion

• Next steps