Blender2.5 and Vray

Vray is a raytracing based renderer thats is used by millions and is extremely powerful and quite fast, with huge amount of options for maximum flexibility, an handles large scenes with absolute ease. I have been using it at work to render scenes and we barly scratch its surface, even have 1000 page Guide on how to use it and what the settings do.

http://chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_hXoTEjT0Q be sure to checkout the recommendations as there is quite a few showreels

For the longest time I have and many other blender users wanted a good export script to Vray (there was one for 1.8 :S) to the extent that i tried to make one many moons ago. But finally our long wait over! :D.

Bdancer has been working diligently on a 2.5 addon to allow you to render in Vray and it finally reached a state that i can actually start using it, and i have got to say, i absolutly Love it!. this is one of the best addons i have seen being made for 2.5 as the intergration is so well done and is pracricly seamless without hiding all the options and tools for those who can use them but also providing sane defaults for those who don't.

Ofcourse there is some gotcha's in the addon like only image textures are currently supported, and some options need to be turned of in blender render like colour correct as it cannot be seen in vray mode. Also you need the vray stand alone, which only comes with the maya plugin, not max.
The Git repo and more info including instructions and known issues can be found here
https://github.com/bdancer/vb25

also if you have anyquestions or want to report somthing please report it at that site.

now for me to stop and to show you some pics :)








Hope you all give Vray a try and give nice feedback to BDancer for all his hard work :)

See Ya's