Seemingly Unrelated Links

They seem unrelated cause they aren't. Personal good stuff for myself to keep in mind.

White Papers

Render Pass Concepts and Techniques

*This white paper explains how to use the Maya render pass framework. The covered topics include: rendering pipeline efficiency, configuring and customizing render passes, and how to composite render passes. The examples show how to leverage render passes to achieve efficient compositing workflows for common rendering, lighting and look tuning tasks.

Mac Batch Privilege/lock conversion tool.

BatChmod

*I do love apple. Even freeware for it is awesome. Simple rights management conversion tool for locked file systems due to files carried from user to user.

Turn off render - Primary Visibility

Z wrote this. Enjoy. =)


string $things[] = `ls - sl`;

for ($lol in $things){

setAttr ($lol + ".primaryVisibility") 0;


}

Vray - FlickerFree Steps

Render Settings

Indirect Illumination Tab

GI - On

Primary Bounces - Light Cache

Secondary Bounces - LightCache

Light Cache - Calculation Parameters - Subdivs (range 2000*)

Light Cache - Calculation Parameters - Show Calc. Phase

Light Cache - Mode - Mode - Fly-through

Vray Tab

Image Sampler - Sampler type - Fixed Rate

Lighting - Uncheck Default Lights

GI - Tick Don't render final image

It stats in the tutorial to use screen if the scene is really large but generally world scale is ideal for animation. Based on the size of the samples taken during test renders. We will guess what is ideal sample size.

VRay Common - By Frame ( Set appropriate number. 5-30 frames depending on camera speed)

Irradiance Map

Indirect Illumination - Tick Show Calc Phase (should already be ticked)

Mode - Mode - Multiframe Incremental

Vray Tab

GI - Tick Don't render final image