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Numerous different approaches to lighting and rendering, as well as different ways to approach your specific scenes, based on the desired final result and time frame. The tutorials provide tips and directions how to achieve exceptional rendering quality and at the same time shorten your rendering times. You can see these videos at 3DATS .

Enjoy your V-Ray time!

Chaos Group Team

As of December 16th 2009, the newest build, V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4a for 3ds Max®, is available from the download section of the Chaos Group site.

The upgrade is free of charge for all current V-Ray for 3ds Max customers of Chaos Group.

The V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4a is compatible with Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008, 3ds Max® 2009, Autodesk® 3ds Max Design 2009, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2010, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010.

The new V-Ray build supports both 32-bit and 64-bit OS.

 It includes the following modified features:

•    Added support for projection mapping when doing texture baking;
•    Added new option to link the V-Ray VFB to PDPlayer;

And several bug fixes:

•    Turning off "Affect specular" for a dome light made it invisible to reflections as well;
•    Fixed a crash when importing a particular .vrmesh file;
•    Fixed crash with VRayFastSSS2 material with VRayDirt map and a standard light with VRayShadowMap;
•    The "prepass samples" option in the motion blur rollout did not work;
•    Fixed stuck buckets with VRayEnvironmentFog and mesh gizmos;
•    Fixed issues with VRayEnvironmentFog and mesh gizmos with modifiers;
•    User could not remove gizmos/lights from VRayEnvironmentFog;
•    ParticleFlow instancing did not render all mapping channels of original mesh;
•    Fixed crash with VFB region render when region is outside of image;
•    Turned off by default the option to save the DR servers to the scene (caused slowdown on scene save if servers are offline);
•    Fixed some licensing issues.

Note, if you have downloaded V-Ray SP4 for 3ds Max we strongly recommend to upgrade it with V-Ray SP4a for 3ds Max because of the licensing issues.
You can receive additional information about this from our Support Team at: vray@chaosgroup.com

The traditional V-Ray Public Event and Demo Presentations will take place December 17-19, Pacifico Convention Center, Yokohama, Japan

For a second year Chaos Group is excited to take part in the most significant event in the computer graphics and interactive techniques industry in Asia. At the end of the year Chaos Group will present the latest on V-Ray for Maya, V-Ray RT and Pdplayer and set the pace to surpass even the most daring expecations in the raytracing technology in 2010.

Partners and resellers will contribute to this year’s booth demo presentations, promotion of new products and bundle surprises for all visitors at SIGGRAPH Asia. Chaos Group team, together with MAXON Computer Japan, and Indyzone Co. will be happy to meet you in person at booth A06.

At Chaos Group booth all visitors will have the chance to enjoy in depth presentations on V-Ray for Maya, and whiteness projects completed with this so expected on the 3D market product. Chaos Group and one of its partners in Japan, Indyzone Co. will cooperate to bring valuable V-Ray experience to the SIGGRAPH Asia public. Special bundle promotion by Chaos Group will be available during this year’s exhibition. The irresistible combination of V-Ray and Pdplayer will be on the market on a special bundle price, starting December 1st, till January 15th 2010.

During the three days of SIGGRAPH, for all C4D users, MAXON Computer Japan will step at the main pod of the booth to present the latest addition of the CINEMA 4D family. The BROADCAST Edition, as well as BODYPAINT R4.5 will be among the demonstrations. To read more on the MAXON Computer Japan participation and bundle promotion, please visit: www.maxon.net/ja/home.html.

V-Ray Public Event at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009

Faithful to its tradition to host a great open event for all V-Ray fans and user, Chaos Group would like to invite all 3D professionals visiting SIGGRAPH to join for a special V-Ray presentation.
The event will take place in the Brillia Short Shorts Theatre, 19 December, 17.00-20.00, Yokohama, Japan. Do not miss out the end of the year presentation by the creators of V-Ray. Registration is open, please follow the link, and reserve your seat.


To all of you visiting SIGGRAPH ASIA, have a productive and exciting time!
See you at the Chaos Group Booth A06!

Greetings,
Chaos Group Team

Available only from 01.12.2009 till 15.01.2010.

Chaos Group would like to offer an exceptional bundle promotion to its customers during the holidays.

You can buy:

Price in USD:

2 Pack Bundle V-Ray for 3ds Max + Pdplayer for $1149. Save $224.
2 Pack Bundle V-Ray for Maya + Pdplayer for $1149. Save $224.
3 Pack Bundle V-Ray for 3ds Max + V-Ray RT + Pdplayer for $1339. Save $333.

Price in EURO:

2 Pack Bundle V-Ray for 3ds Max + Pdplayer for €799. Save €169.
2 Pack Bundle V-Ray for Maya + Pdplayer for €799. Save €169.
3 Pack Bundle V-Ray for 3ds Max + V-Ray RT + Pdplayer for €999. Save €218.

Pdplayer is an advanced image sequence player supporting multi-layered sequence playback for the 3D, CG and VFX insdustry. Its incredible speed and ease of use make it an exceptional tool for review and quality control. Pdplayer is capable of displaying VRIMG and EXR files with embedded render elements. This way you can preview and compose your V-Ray renders much faster and easier that before.

Greg Tsadilas, Red Magnet

“I would expect nothing less from the company that brought us the best 3D render engine out there, but the best way to view and manipulate multiple and concurrent image sequences. The ability to composite, make color corrections and even allow real-time remote viewing of my desktop, increases my productivity 1000%. To call pdplayer just a “flipbook viewer”, is like calling a priceless Diamond “just another rock.”

Save your money, save your time, increase your pipeline productivity!

Do not miss out!

Chaos Group Team

Chaos Group is celebrating the 3D Day in Valencia . The event is aimed at all 3D artists and professionals and is organized by our valued V-Ray representative from the region: 3DValue. 3DValue offers consultancy services to companies, studios and professionals involved in 3D modeling, animation and rendering.

During the event, few projects completed with V-Ray will be presented by Concepto Nau, a company which has chosen V-Ray as a primary renderer to bring to its clients outstanding 3D professional services. Also, a presentation by Azken Muga S.L. will demonstrate a new line of 3D professional Workstations, W Series.

The event will take place at Cervecería Cruz Blanca, Avd., Giorgeta 35, Valencia on the 3rd of December 2009 with the following program:

•    19:00 - 19.30 - Registration and welcoming
•    19.30 - 20.00 - Presentations by 3DValue and Concepto NAU.
•    20.00 - 20.45 - Technological Innovations
          o    New line of 3D professional Workstations, W Series, presented by Rafael Lainez, Azken Muga S.L.

          o    New releases:

V-Ray 1.5 SP4 for 3ds Max, presented by Rafa Costa, 3DValue

V-Ray RT for 3ds Max, presented by Victor Perez, Concepto Nau

•    20.45 a 21.30 - Networking

To come and celebrate with us the 3D Day 2009 in Valencia, Spain, please register at:

http://www.3dday.es

All attendees will receive a special discount of 10% off the V-Ray products!

Hope to share with you a great 3D Day!

Chaos Group Team

The latest products for 2009: V-Ray for Maya and V-Ray RT and new versions to be presented to the Korean 3D professionals.

Chaos Group is excited to announce the company’s annual Road Show in Korea. As SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 is approaching Chaos Group team starts its Asia tour, visiting customers, resellers and partners.

Chaos Group will showcase one of the most expected products on 3D market: V-Ray for Autodesk® Maya®, and present to Korean studios, production houses and CG departments how can increase the efficiency of the production pipeline and achieve uncompromised quality in shorter times. Other solutions expected to be presented are V-Ray RT for Autodesk® 3ds Max® and V-Ray RT running on GPU, as well as the sequence player Pdplayer and the latest builds and improvements. Chaos Group team is excited to present personally first to the Korean public the first free upgrade of V-Ray RT 1.50 Service Pack 1 and the new V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4.

During the Road Show Chaos Group, together with the exclusive representative of V-Ray in Korea, SHINSEGAE  I&C will host events in Seoul and Daejeon. The 2010 V-Ray Conference is a public event, open to everyone interested in rendering with competitive speed and quality will take place on the 25th of November at the Coex Center, Seoul.

For more information on events, schedule and registration, please contact our exclusive distributor for Korea, SHINSEGAE I&C.

SHINSEGAE I & C Co., Ltd.

Brian Lee

phone: + 82 2 3397 1633

e-mail: jetta73@shinsegae.com

address: 197-12, Guro-Dong, Guro-Gu, Seoul 152-050

On October 26th, Monday, the newest build, V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4, is available from the download section of the Chaos Group site.

The upgrade is free of charge for all current V-Ray customers of Chaos Group.

The V-Ray® 1.50 Service Pack 4 is compatible with Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2008, 3ds Max® 2009, Autodesk® 3ds Max Design 2009, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2010, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010.

The new V-Ray build supports both 32-bit and 64-bit OS.
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Added New Feature in V-Ray 1.50 SP4 is V-Ray Ambient Light.

 It includes several modified features:

-  Improved multithreading on multi-core machines;
-  Ability to specify gizmo falloff for VRayEnvironmentFog;
-  Ability to use arbitrary meshes as gizmos for VRayEnvironmentFog;
-  Option to exclude the background from VRayEnvironmentFog;
-  Added CIE sky models to the VRaySun and VRaySky;
-  It is now possible to submit DR servers list for DR through backburner;
-  Added option to not use area speculars in the VRayIES light;
-  Added Kelvin temperature settings for the color of VRayLights;
-  VFB history is now turned off when 3ds Max is in slave mode;
-  Output .vrimg and split channel paths are listed in the Asset Tracker;
-  GI cache files (irradiance maps, light cache etc) are listed in the Asset Tracker.


The complete list with the improvements of the existing features can be found in the changelog file, which is a part of the installation.

On October 26th, Monday, the latest build of V-Ray RT 1.50 Service Pack 1, is available from the download section of the Chaos Group site.

The V-Ray® RT 1.50 Service Pack 1 is compatible with Autodesk® 3ds Max® 8, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2009, Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2010, Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2010.

The new V-Ray RT build supports both 32-bit and 64-bit OS.

The upgrade is free of charge for all current V-Ray customers of Chaos Group.
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It includes the following new features:

- Support for the HSL/HSV controls of the ColorCorrect texture (as well as the map slots);
- Support for the "Additional bump" slot of the Normal bump texture;
- Some gamma workflows did not work well with the ActiveShade;
- Option to stop updating the ActiveShade window after a certain fixed amount of time;
- Support for region rendering in the ActiveShade window;
- The override material options from the standard V-Ray renderer to work properly;
- Support for environment override in VRayMtl;
- An option to manually restart V-Ray RT, without having to close & reopen the activeshade window/viewport;
- Option to pause the RT;
- Support for opacity maps of standard materials;
- Support for VRayEdgesTex in bump slot;
- Ability to directly export to a .vrscene from MaxScript without starting the ActiveShade (through the vrayExportRTScene() command);
- Access to the ActiveShade bitmap from MaxScript (through the vrayGetRTBitmap() command);
- Support for paletted PNG textures;
- Consider the "Hidden lights" switch from the standard V-Ray;
- Support for IFL file format for textures;
- Support the Shell Material in V-Ray RT.

The complete list of the new and improved features can be found in the changelog file, which is a part of the installation.

In order to explore the rendering opportunities of V-Ray RT you must have installed V-Ray 1.50.SP4 or a later version.

Chaos Group is privileged to be part of the annual Animago Award and Conference (29th - 30th October’09, Filmpark Babelsberg, Germany) and support it with all our passion for the film and animation industry. As one of the most well renown and respected film events in the heart of Europe, Animago Award gives all of us the opportunity to celebrate and cherish the magic of our industry. Developing rendering solutions used in numerous film productions, the most exciting part for us is that Chaos Group has the chance to partnership with Animago Award in encouraging the competition specifically in the category of Best Film and TV Production. We strongly believe that after this year’s great interest and extended submission deadlines, remarkable works and projects will amuse us during the ceremony. Beyond supporting and participating in such essential for the development of the film, vfx and animation industry events, our team continually strives to improve technology tools and enable more artists to set future trends.

During the Animago Conference Chaos Group team will conduct open V-Ray for Maya training session. After the release of V-Ray for Maya and the great interest shown from many international VFX and Film studios we make an effort to demonstrate specific for the industry tactics and techniques which enable artist to cut production time and achieve uncompromising rendering quality.

V-Ray Master Class:

Venue: Studio 1
Time: 9.00-10.30, 29th October 2009
Topics:  Advanced Shading with V-Ray for Maya
  • Creating realistic materials
  • Achieving realistic lighting    
  • Fastest way to setup and control V-Ray

Working with big scale scenes for production

  • Working efficiently with V-Ray Proxies
  • Controlling RAM usage with huge scenes
  • Working with particles and V-Ray Proxies
  • Advance Shading techniques for V-Ray Proxies
  • Working with Render Elements and V-Ray Proxies

In the afternoon of the first day of the Animago Award and Conference Chaos Group team will also host a special event in the Cinema of the Babelsberg Studio. During this event we will have the opportunity to present to all our customers and visitors not only the newest technologies and rendering solutions we have developed in 2009, but also to introduce them to interesting case studies presented by well renown production studios.

V-Ray Open Event during Animago Award and Festival

Venue: The Cinema
Time: 2-5 pm, 29th October 2009

During the Animago Award Ceremony Chaos Group will award the winner in the category of Best Film and TV Production. We will be privileged to meet you in person during this promising event. To join us for the V-Ray Master Class and V-Ray Public Event, please register here.

In order to attend our V-Ray Open Event and V-Ray Master Class you should buy tickets for the Animago Award & Conference from here.

 

 

Chaos Group will take part in the annual Romsym Data Day to present new exciting products and features to the Romanian 3D artists and customers. The presentation by the Chaos Group team will focus on the V-Ray interactive technology and solution for 3ds Max, as well as the summer release of the new V-Ray for Maya, state of the art rendering solution for the Visual FX, Film and Entertainment Industry.

The Chaos Group event will be held on 7th October 2009, 09 a.m. in the Athenee Palace Hilton Bucharest.