There is a decent amount of (noise and other) textures especially through OSL as well as “Vray plugins” which allow you to load textures available by default in 3ds max only and vice versa to Maya, as well as it contains some other noise textures too which is always useful to make materials. Triplanner mapping is something i constantly use too so in most time i don’t need to bother about UVs at all.

Love feature like rounded corners (render time bevel on sharp corners or even between objects that are not connected in a boolean union way).

With the addition of progressive rendering, the lookdev become super fast which you can use for final too if you want (i usually use a bucket rendering for final).

Fast and easy set up to render with settings that make sense what they are doing with even faster if you set up things as presets like render settings (or materials).

Before, VRay was really a black box almost with a lot of features that make no sense how they work together but with new versions of VRay everything become, really, stupidly easy to use and set up with just a one or two sliders to adjust in render settings depending on the quality you want. And for that it uses a color transform.īut the problem is that blender is using the sRGB color transform! Which was originally designed to approximate the response of a CRT monitor.I picked up VRay as my first renderer when i was starting around 4-5 years ago in CInema4D and then kept using it also when i switched to Maya. In order to see the information on a display, it needs to be converted. The cause is the Color Management configuration that Blender is using.īecause just like a camera, when blender renders something it's storing the information of the final render as 0s and 1s. And for that matter, many external renderers suffer from the same problem. Thankfully Blender's poor dynamic range isn't due to the actual renderer. So if you can increase the dynamic range, you can increase the sunlight, which will increase the bounce lighting, which will give us perfect lighting without any workarounds! The Cause of the Poor Dynamic Range

The reason the sunlight was blowing out was because of having only 8 stops of dynamic range to work with!.

The reason the sunlight isn't bright enough is because the sunlight was already blowing out.

The reason the sunlight isn't bouncing enough is because the sunlight isn't bright enough,.

The reason the room is too dark is because the sunlight isn't bouncing enough,.

It doesn't work due to the poor dynamic range:

In the reference photo, the room is lit with the sunlight only. Like adding extra lamps to exaggerate bounce lighting, or increasing the sky light to fill the room with light. When you compare it to the reference photo you can see that our render is significantly darker than the reference photo.Īt this point most of us would start doing some 'cheating'.

Filmic blender for vray