nicolastoubia Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Hi guys, Just wondering if any of you have the solidrocks plugin and have used it before ? I have played around with it and it seems ok, producing good images quicker than if u were using normal vray plugin.. but i noticed the SR(Solidrocks) makes the image brighter, and there is less settings.. which gets me a little worried if i can't control certain things.. so what i'm trying to ask is, is have u used SR and would u use it over Vray, and how do u deal with settings, eg if u wanna change the image sampling , would u change that in the normal vray rollout then render using SR? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robjameson Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Hi, I use SR with VRay, and SR do make the images (and also colors) brighter because when you launch the script, it automatically switches the current project to Linear Workflow (Gamma 2.2), though this can be disabled. I find SR to be OK for production (provided you use the proper presets), and it makes me save a lot of time for previewing scenes without me having to tweak every quality-related parameter. For changing settings, you can either modify them directly in SR, or disable SR override (i.e. lights' shadow sampling rate at rendering time) and then set your values in MAX. Anyway, I find this plugin to be really useful, and I'd recommand it, especially for VRay beginners ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Learn to use VRay yourself, seriously. If you don't learn it; you'll never know what plugins like solidrocks are actually doing and how to tweak settings to your benefit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewspencer Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Learn to use VRay yourself, seriously. If you don't learn it; you'll never know what plugins like solidrocks are actually doing and how to tweak settings to your benefit. +1 to this I have Solidrocks and actually use it very little. I'd much rather sufficiently know about VRay to the point of not needing SR, than to only know the tiny world of SR and be lost without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Matthews Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Learn to use VRay yourself, seriously. If you don't learn it; you'll never know what plugins like solidrocks are actually doing and how to tweak settings to your benefit. I concur. I have SR and tried to implement it midstream on an animation project. Probably not the best thing to do since it overrided all my settings and ended up giving me terrible results. Lesson learned I suppose. But in all sincerity, if you are a pro at Vray, then this plugin offers little to no value other than presets. If you go outside of the presets then what, if you don't know Vray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicolastoubia Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 yeah, thanks i used SR for one image before i started learning vray properly and it gave me ok results. I guess SR is good for beginners. But as I started learning Vray i realised maybe using vray is better..anyway i'm still learning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic H Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 solidrocks is terrible avoid at all costs its adjusts setting arbitrarily... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klonk Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 My experience with SolidRocks is excellent, and personally I much rather tweak my scene and materials than spend time trying to figure out how many Hsph subdivs, etc are needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Schroeder Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 My experience with SolidRocks is excellent, and personally I much rather tweak my scene and materials than spend time trying to figure out how many Hsph subdivs, etc are needed. But if you don't know what solidrocks is adjusting, then all of your material tweaks will be affected by shoddy render settings. You can spend 20 hours on the best material, but if you don't have the right render settings it will still look awful. Solidrocks is decent, but it's also a bad thing to rely on. Not knowing the few critical settings that Vray uses is akin to not knowing how to fill up your car with gas or change a flat tire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ismael Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 "SolidRocks adjusts and optimise all needed Vray parameters to reach the best rendertime/quality ratio. Learn Vray progressively, see in realtime changes made by SolidRocks when you change resolution/quality." From plugin description at scriptspot. Learning is advised with the plugin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic H Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 what about trouble shooting though? presets arent gonna fix a slow scene there really is no way around learning vray properly. you could get a good handle on it in the same time you took to learn and install solidbollocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ismael Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I agree with learning and don't own the plugin or want to. I am just saying that the creator of the plugin presents it amongst other things as a learning tool. I believe that it does not work on 'presets' however. To my knowledge, it analyses what the current settings are and adjusts them to obtain either speed or higher quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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