VRay Training

• Installing and locating VRay tools and features
• Understanding VRay concepts
• Adding different lighting effects to create beautiful finished images
• Applying Global Illumination (GI) to create realistic looking lighting for a scene
• Using VRay materials to create translucency effect
• Using progressive Image Sampler
• Working with VRaySun and VRaySky
• Creating Stereoscopic 3D rendering
• Working with cameras and post-lighting a scene
• Optimizing fur and blur effects
• Demonstrating the VRay RT(real time) workflow

• Architects
• Interior designers
• Game developers
• Graphics designers

1. Getting Ready to Render with V-Ray

• Installing V-Ray

• Setting up V-Ray

• Locating V-Ray's tools and features

• V-Ray's image-saving options

2. Critical V-Ray Concepts

• Image sampling explained

• Understanding subdivs

• Using the DMC Sampler

• Overview of color mapping

• Understanding the color-mapping modes

3. Key Lighting Tools

• Introduction to lighting in V-Ray

• Dealing with lighting problems

• Adding a spherical fill light

• Creating a mesh light

• Creating a skylight effect

• Working with the dome light

4. Global Illumination

• Global illumination (GI) explained

• Understanding primary and secondary bounces

• How irradiance mapping works

• Using irradiance mapping, part 1

• Using irradiance mapping, part 2

• How light cache works
• Using light cache

• Understanding brute force GI

• Using brute force GI

5. The V-Ray Materials

• Introduction to V-Ray-specific materials

• Creating a diffuse color

• Making reflective materials

• Blurring reflections

• Making clear and colored glass

• Creating a translucency effect

6. Quality Control with Image Sampling

• Introduction to image sampling

• Using the Fixed-Rate sampler

• How to use the Adaptive DMC sampler

• Working with the Adaptive Subdivision sampler

• Comparing image-sampling renders

7. The Physical Workflow

• The physical workflow explained

• Working with VRaySun and VRaySky

• Controlling the VRayPhysicalCamera

8. V-Ray's Effects Tools

• Depth of field: VRayPhysicalCamera

• Depth of field: using a perspective viewport

• Creating a motion blur effect

• Generating caustic effects

• Using VRayFur

• Stereoscopic 3D rendering

9. Using Render Elements

• Render elements workflow

• Preparing to composite

• Compositing V-Ray elements

• Putting extra elements to work

• Post-lighting a scene

10. V-Ray RT

• Overview of V-Ray RT

• Demonstrating the RT workflow

• Conclusion