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Simulating Self-Illumination Materials with V-Ray 1.50 for 3ds Max/VIZ

VRay materials don’t have a self-illumination setting like standard materials do. Sometimes you may need a vray material to provide its own illumination and there is a way to do that. If you make a vraylight material and assign a map to the color channel, you achieve a self-illuminated material in VRay. A VRaylight [...]

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Blending Irradiance Maps in V-Ray 1.50 for 3ds Max/VIZ

A V-Ray tutorial from trinity3d.com: Many of you out there have probably run into the problem of needing motion in a GI lit scene. Usually this results in splotchiness and noise that swims around. V-Ray 1.50 has come up with a solution to address this. You can pre-calculate, and blend your irradiance maps together with [...]

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