Animated V-Ray Proxy...

[Claudio Branch]

Anyone out there tried using an animated proxy? I was able to output the mesh, but it wouldn't playback any motion.

 

What am I missing?

[Scott Schroeder]

I don't think Vray supports this yet, so you may just be exporting out the first frame. I have heard that the next version of Vray will support this, but I'm not sure if that's already out or not.

[Trevor Tizard]

The current (SP2) version of vray has animated proxy's, check out the Chaos forum.

[whitetr]

Claudio,

I've tried it and it worked fine. I did a simple animated tree, then exported as a vray mesh. There's controls for animation offset and speed too. Pretty nifty. I also saw an animation of an animated crowd. Very cool! 1 proxy instanced many times, all offset. It looked very good.

What are you trying to animate? is it a group or something that is animated in a way that might not translate?

[Claudio Branch]

Hey Tracey,

 

I was initially just testing it with a brief mechanical animation. I believe I solved my problem too. I switched to "Export all selected objects in a single file" and now it works.

 

Next Problem...

[Devin Johnston]

I'm having a problem exporting animated onyx trees, do you have to convert them to a mesh before exporting them?