my vray ate my viagra

[vizwhiz]

well Thats what it looks like (not That i really need it)

 

so what is up with all of This BLUE in The scene?

and how in The heck do i get rid of This? & soon?

 

max9 vray 1.5r3

vray sun, vray light

vray physical camera

 

irradiance map w/ light cache

defafult settings so far nothing fancy

 

i am Trying To make The vray Light somewhat more yellow or peach-ish

i remember seeing some kind of comment about changing The blue value

 

somewhere. any help is greatly appreciated

i am just setting up materials but The client

really wants a site over-all fly-by, so This is preliminary

 

my 1st vray project ever (yahooo!)

 

i Think i found a bug or Two in max Tho

when clicking on The 'show material in viewport' in The material editor

it crashes max completely, but if i went into The map definition and Then

clicked on The 'show material in viewport' it would work without crashing

 

but why does The materials not show up when i have no other changes?

 

and fn FLM is just a POS (and That aint piece of software, either)

 

o well, any help will be greatly appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Randy

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

i don't have your answers, but it is important to remember that vray sun and sky is not the end all answer to exterior lighting solutions. if you have a stylized lighting solution in your mind or a particular feeling you want to create, you may be better off lighting with a vray sphere, and HDRI or a vray sphere, and a vray dome light.

 

i think a vray sphere intensity needs to be set to 384 or so to be equal to mid day vray sun. it is a good starting point anyway.

[Sawyer]

Ok the blue looks to me like its a sky without any direct light so its just blue fill.

 

The vray sky/sun does a few things:

 

its a direct/fill light combo

both colors are tied to zenith position

the sun light is much brighter (I think traivs is right about 384 x something like that) than a standard light. There is a good video posted at the chaos site about testing the suns values.

 

So if you don't want to use the camera reduce the intensity but you need to compensate somehow for that brightness. A down side of using a camera is that an exterior will have too great a range of light and the shadow may be under exposed if you expose the sun light part or the other way around but it is really hard to expose both. Personally I think many professional photographers would love to be able to use a sun light that was less intense so they didn't have to deal with this.

 

If you don't want the blue fill with the yellow sun there are many options.

 

I know there is a bug with the show maps option I thought it was only with using a vray color.

[SandmanNinja]

I want/need to do more tutorials with vray sun.

 

I've been 'cheating' by using a regular vray light (which lets me adjust the colour) and an hdri for exterior lighting solutions.

 

My rule-of-thumb: exterior=hdri, interior=background colour

 

But if's just tricky balancing the light just right. First the tone/shade/colour as well as the intensity.