UPD June 2023. The article was written in 2013 and turned out to be very prophetic. Recommendation from 2023 - don’t bother with V-Ray and 3ds Max, that's why. The following is the original text of the article from 2013.
The Internet is oversaturated with offers of courses on setting up VRay; they talk about them in detail for 2-3 days. This was done in order to generate additional profit. I basically don’t bother novice designers with these settings for 3 reasons:
1) Algorithms are changing. Over time, computers become more powerful, optimization algorithms change, and V-Ray, accordingly, also changes. If you were able to configure it 1-2 years ago, this does not mean at all that you can do it now. At the moment, the trend includes PathTrace Unbiased GPU renders. PathTrace is a physically correct visualization algorithm based on the real properties of light, does not require configuration, is simple and extremely photorealistic. With its help you can achieve photorealism that cannot be achieved using V-Ray. It can also be run on a graphics card, which speeds up rendering by 20-100 times.
Below you will see some videos showing it working in real time! Those. It takes not several hours, but several seconds to visualize one frame to acceptable quality!
V-Ray will soon also switch to this algorithm and there will be no complicated settings there.
2) Stuffing your head with unnecessary stuff. A novice designer already needs to study a fairly large amount of information.
3) Speed. Spending time setting up V-Ray is not rational. Why configure it every time, if you can store ready-made settings and load them in a couple of clicks? In my courses I give ready settings, relevant at the moment. When I worked at SocialQuantum (a very reputable company, they even compare it to Google), we had ready-made scenes with all the settings.
In V-Ray, starting from version 3.0, similar presets are already built-in. Read the article “Quick setup of V-Ray 3.0”
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When I tried to turn on this preset, it gave an error and the max crashed.
max 2012 vr 2.4
Need 2014
Please tell me how to load these settings into max?
F10 key, bottom left Preset>Load preset
What version of V-Ray are these settings for?
Max 2014, V-Ray any
Andrey, thanks for the ready-made settings. I have a question, how can I make it so that there are more shadows. With these settings, there is a bit of volume missing. Or am I doing something wrong?
Victoria, do you mean how to make the shadows clearer rather than blurry?
It depends on the size and number of ICs.
The settings work, but the picture is a little dark. How can this be resolved?
Denis, press button 8, select Exposure control - Vray exposure control in the rollout and make the ISO higher.
This is shown in detail in the video course. http://andreykozlov.ru/lp/video/
Yes, everything is beautiful in the lesson, especially the sky color outside the window using a ready-made preset, I don’t see it in myself and in other people’s lessons I see it, but mine is just white and that’s why no one wants to tell me where it comes from, in theory it should be without an overlay cards, but nothing works for me
I figured out everything, I saw the sky, but when using this script you need to forget about the other light sources when adding any reaction, you can only turn the photometric
This peseta is also suitable for other light sources, but they need to be adjusted too.
u men9 v rendere setup assign renderer otsustvuyut mnogo 4ego tam tolko metal ray VUE file vse a max u men9 2009 nujen 2014 ska4at mojno student.autodesk.com? thank you Andrey vam!!!
max 2014 nujen da?
Andrey, hello, I have a 9 max 2009 and in the render setup there is an assin renderer, there is only a metal ray VUE file, what should I do?
You need to additionally install V-Ray
Andrey, good afternoon! Please tell me, I loaded your settings, and when the rendering is completed, too much noise appears in the picture, how can this be fixed, and what is the reason?
Noise on shadows, materials, GI? Send a specific picture by email. The nature of noise is different and does not always depend on the render settings.
how to install and where is v-ray?
On the official ChaosGroup website
Brigade Real time path tracing is impressive! The geometry, as I understand it, is from 3dmax, but what was the flyby and calculation done in?
Good day, Andrey! Or maybe you have good presets for Max 2011? I'm 14 and it just won't cut it ((
V-Ray 3.0 has built-in presets. I have a video on this topic. There is a link at the bottom of the article.
Andrey, hello! I have 2014 Max, and Vray 2.4, I said and set your settings, but the scene turns out to be too overexposed and what a cartoon image? How can this be corrected, what needs to be corrected?! Please tell me, I will be very grateful to you!
I tried it according to the lesson, using the shortcut key 8, it worked, but the problem with the fading of the materials did not disappear, and there is a lot of noise in the picture, I also can’t get rid of the reflections of bright colors on light ones, although there was no such problem before ((
You need to watch the scene, most likely the problem is in setting up the materials.
As always, everything is clear and without water!
...but I have a bug in the program:
In VRAY [Object type] I have only one mode [VrayLight].
For example, Andrey, you have four of them: [VrayLight], [Vray IES], [VrayAmbientLig],
[VraySun]. Can you tell me where the other three could have gone?
Maybe because Vray and 3D MAX are installed on D:, not C:?
Thank you in advance!
Thank you. Need to see. It's difficult to understand what your problem is.
You need to understand this well to set it up.