Vray light how to#
Vray light install#

Settings Used in the Light Preview Renders

Adjust Light Intensity Tool: вЂњWhen clicked the intensity of any light can be adjusted in the viewport by left clicking and dragging up or down.вЂќДЄll Lights can be edited in the VRay Asset Editor under the Lightbulb Icon, you can click the small arrow on the right (middle of the edge) to see all the advanced options.

Starting from Left to Right, these are the available Light options with links to their Chaos Group information pages:

Vray light how to#

So, in this guide weвЂ™ll be focusing on how to light up a model with every single lighting object VRay has to offer. In order to produce a good design render, one of the main skills you need is being able to add good lighting to your space. Your materials and objects will look weird not to mention all the weird shadows and highlight burns your final image will suffer from. You canвЂ™t render with bad lighting either. These are the 4 main lights IвЂ™ll be focusing on in this tutorial. In Vray, there are 4 types of lights that are most commonly used rectangle light, spot light, omni light, and dome light. IвЂ™m using the same scene from the Daylight render ( linked here), but with added light fixtures. I already made a video on lighting up a night scene using ambient light which is perfect if youвЂ™re looking for a moody render ( Linked here), but this time weвЂ™re aiming for a bright and well lit interior. I hope i was able to learn you something i am not the best to make tutorials but anyway, i wish you a really nice day with vray! This tutorial was created by Linda.Since the video before this one was about lighting up a scene using daylight or Sunlight, it only makes sense if I made this video on lighting up a scene at night. I forgot to tell you about the carpet, it is a chamferbox with a vray displacement modifier added, i used one of the carpet fabrics on the 3d total clean texures to make the carpet, and the corresponding bump map for the displacement map, you can find the vray displacement map under modifiers. So that was about it now you are ready to render the image. Indirect illumination Vray has som good irradiance map presets so we are going to use one of them in the picture you can see that i have medium but you are going to use medium to animation this will increase the rendering time so for test renders leave it to a low preset. In reflection/refraction set the colour to white and multiplier set to 2 this will make the scene more bright.Д¬olor mapping set the type to exponential and the dark multiplier to 2,5. Vray enviroment (skylight) in this chase i have put a hdri (High Dynamic Range Image) map for my enviroment but you can leave it as it is. In Global switches i uncheck the default lights this will unable the default lights. Here is the render dialouge i am not going in to all settings here that will be another tutorial. Sampling= lower values more noise, higer values smoother resault but will increase at the rendering time. Smooth surface shadows= Smooth surface shadows.

Store with irradiance map= when this is checked the irradiance map will take longer to calculate but the rendering will be faster (standard unchecked). Skylight portal= when ths is checked the light will work as sky light source. Color= color of the light Mult= The intensity of the light. No decay= When this opption is checked there will be no decay on the light intensity (something like when you use attenuation) on the distance. Normalize intensity= Normally, when you make the light bigger or smaller the light intensity will take affect but if you check this option the size of the light will have no affect on the light intensity. Ignore lights normal= when this is off more light is emitted in the direction of the source surface normal (standard checked).

Invisible= checked the light is invisible unchecked light visible (standard checked). On= checked on unchecked of (standard checked) Doublesided= when this is checked (works only on a plane light) the light is beamed from both sides (standard unchecked). Here is an explanation for the parameters of the vray light

Vray light install#

Once you have install the vray plugin for 3ds max you will find the vray lights under create where all the other lights are. Lets take a look at the settings and what they stand fore. I have placed one plane vray light in every window, and a omni light with the far attenuation on make the attenuation big enough to fill the room as you can see on the image above, on the omni light i have set the multiplier to 0,5 and it has a light yellow color. This is my left and top viewport as you can see i have made two big openings so a lot of light is able to come in the room. The rest of the side table is very simple just boxes with some extrusion and chamferd edges. These are extruded splines with a editable poly modifier added and after i chamferd the edges. This is also a very simple modell made out of boxes and splines.