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Vray Tutorial – Vray Embree Helper

By Digital Lode Tutorials, Tutorials

Quick Video about the Vray Embree Plugin. This is the first in (what I hope to becomes) a regular series of Tips & Tricks videos focused on Vray.

I’ve recently come across the Vray Embree Helper object; a plugin that is currently separate from the standard Vray installation. The VrayEmbree plugin allows for render speedups between 20-30+ % when rendering with Vray on an intel processor.

This quick video gives an overview of the plugin with a render comparison and covers the installation and how to use the vrayembree helper in your 3ds max scene.

Download the Vray Embree plugin from the Vray tools page:
http://www.spot3d.com/vray/misc/

Release thread on the ChaosGroup forums:
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?68970-Embree-raycaster-for-V-Ray&highlight=Embree

Intel’s official page for the Embree Kernels:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/embree-photo-realistic-ray-tracing-kernels/

Official Intel Embree forum:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/embree-photo-realistic-ray-tracing-kernels

i7 Processor Comparison:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors#Desktop_processors

 

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November 3, 2012
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What i’m working on – 2012 – Week 28

By Current Projects, What I'm Working on (WIWO)No Comments

Another very busy week. Definitely one of the craziest this year. This week I helped Alf @ Reel Pictures finish the corporate video for Swisse. It ended up having a million changes that were all finished within the extremely tight deadline. Glad to finally see it finished. A lot of complex animations and effects were created for the video but subsequently removed as part of the changes. Very frustrating, but that’s the nature of the business!

This week I also finished the demo reel for Cole Ewing, which was quite fun!

I’ve been working on 3D artwork for the Fling Fest short film festival. I’m using 3DS max and Vray. Here’s a quick 3D render of the artwork so far:

[image title=”Fling Fest 2012 Artwork – Progress Render” width=”544″ height=”455″ lightbox=”true” group=”2012-wiwo-28″ icon=”zoom”] https://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FlingFestRender.jpg [/image]

And here’s a screengrab of the 3DS max scene.

[image title=”Screengrab of the 3DS Max scene” width=”544″ height=”332″ lightbox=”true” group=”2012-wiwo-28″ icon=”zoom”] https://thelode.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Screengrab.jpg [/image]

The lighting in this project has been the most enjoyable part. It’s lit using a HDRI environment and a single Key light against an endless background. I’m rendering it at Alf’s studio in Footscray. We’ve set up Distributed rendering there, meaning around 7 PCs can work together to render a single frame; a big time saver.

[divider_line_padding] I try to create a quick journal entry at the end of each week that covers the projects, events and highlights of the past 7 days. These weekly blog posts are known as the ‘WIWO’ Series
(What I’m Working On).
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July 15, 2012
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