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I Ray!!

cclesuecclesue Posts: 420
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As I get deeper into this IRay thing I realize just how little I know. And when I go to the Surfaces tabs I am completely lost. Is there a comprehensive tutorial on the subject? Well maybe a comprehensive "IRay for Idiots" would be more to this user at any rate. Lots of $1.98 piecemeal helps for sale here (for a good deal more that $1.98) and I can't afford to go that route. Ideas?

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  • RobotHeadArtRobotHeadArt Posts: 917

    https://sickleyield.deviantart.com/journal/Iray-Surfaces-And-What-They-Mean-519346747

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,846

    It also helps to open the preview window and play with the settings to see what they actually do on the fly

  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,079

    @cclesue

    Be aware that a lot of the information created shortly after Iray was introduced is either outdated or wrong. That was a time when everyone was new to Iray and there were a lot of assumptions and limited experimentation going on.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,281

    As for shaders there is this one, though a bit pricey:

    https://www.daz3d.com/catalog/product/view/id/38627

  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679
    edited March 2018
    FSMCDesigns said:

    It also helps to open the preview window and play with the settings to see what they actually do on the fly

    That doesn't always work with how the preview disables certain things. But it can help with basic stuff.
    fastbike1 said:

    @cclesue

    Be aware that a lot of the information created shortly after Iray was introduced is either outdated or wrong. That was a time when everyone was new to Iray and there were a lot of assumptions and limited experimentation going on.

    Plus Iray made some changes from 4.8 to 4.9 to 4.10, so some specific advice may no longer apply even if it was correct in 2015. The "dual lobe specularity" is new to 4.10.
    Post edited by outrider42 on
  • fastbike1fastbike1 Posts: 4,079

    @outrider42

    That would be the "outdated" part.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,846
    outrider42 said:
    FSMCDesigns said:

    It also helps to open the preview window and play with the settings to see what they actually do on the fly

     

    That doesn't always work with how the preview disables certain things. But it can help with basic stuff.

    Not sure what you mean. What I see in the iray preview mode is very close to what I see in the actual render. I am not talking the texture preview mode if that is what you meant.

  • tj_1ca9500btj_1ca9500b Posts: 2,057

    Your forum title made me think of this...

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