Volume Light Effect Within V-Ray

[Claudio Branch]

I have a night scene that I am working on and I want to use a volume effect on an array of free spot lights.

 

The illumination is coming along just fine, but I can't seem to get the volume effect to work with V-Ray.

 

Any suggestions?

[kippu]

well a) you can use scanline and get volumetric effect and then add it in photoshop

or http://www.evermotion.org/index.php?unfold_exclusive=64&unfold=exclusive

[STRAT]

or invest in cinema 4d's version of vray. we have full volumetrics

[Ricardo Eloy]

Simply use shadow map instead of vray shadow and it will work just fine.

[Claudio Branch]

Thanks for the help everyone, I got it working.

 

Shadow Map is the winner!

[Claudio Branch]

Anybody else experiencing longer render times when using the volume effect?

 

I am using very low GI & sampling settings and it is still just crawling...

[tedesco]

I found the problem is in using Vray camera.

Try using a standard Max camera or rendering the volume light in a separate render and compositing it in PS.

[Eric Sosa]

this shot was made with vray physicalcam & volume ligth applyied on a standar spot ligth with vray shadows.

 

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it did not take longer that if it had been made with standard cam..I did tested when I made the render.

 

perhaps it's just a matter to finding the rigth volume ligth parameters...dunno