It will often be external views which means you can rely on a single light source, the sun.īlender has a whole host of tools that aren’t necessary for this limited task. I don’t suppose I am alone in mainly wanting something that will take an already impressive SU 3D rendered model and jazzing it up with more realistic lighting, without having too steep a learning curve or having to spend hours just to get a slightly better render. There’s been a lot of discussion about using Blender as an alternative to SU but I’m not up for that. It’s hard to know how many people are using Blender this way, even if only as a cost-free gateway drug to “proper” render engines. If you don't have access please write to and your account will be activated for nightlies.I have been looking into the capabilities of Blender for use as a photorealistic renderer for SU models. You could access with your account user/password. īuilds are alvailable and the under 'Blender For V-Ray' section. Issue reports are welcome here and/or at.

If you don't have access to the nighlies server and / or don't see 'Blender For V-Ray' section please write to and your account will be activated for nightlies.

You could access with your account user/password.

Builds are alvailable at the under 'Blender For V-Ray' section.

Proxy generator now supports more than 1 UV channel (as well as color channels).

Possibility to import materials from *.vrscene files.

Possiblity to customize defaults / draft settings.

New preview with customizable preview file.

Possibility to convert materials from vb25 and simple materials from Internal/Cycles (needs testing).

Animation export is now exporting the data that actually changes (much much lighter vrscene in 'Full Range' mode).

Possibility to export / render volumentric data (clouds, smoke, fire, etc).

Geometric data is now exported in compressed format result in lighter vrscene files and faster loading by V-Ray.

Path to V-Ray execulable could be now set in addon preferences panel.

'Update Exporter' option now uses git so git has to be installed.

> Addons -> Render -> V-Ray For Blender 3.0)

Script is now an addon and has to be activated (User Preferences.

The main goal of this release is node based workflow. Here is the first public beta of V-Ray For Blender 3.0!

Download vray blender 3.0