Notes from
production.

Importance of proper bug reporting.

In this post I want to cover the proper way of bug reporting as I believe it’s very important for both the users and developers. I base this on my experience with…

Dabarti Capture Released!

I’m very proud to announce that Dabarti Capture,  a new command line tool for creating normal, albedo and displacement maps from multiple photographs. Check it out http://dabarti.com/capture/ This tool helped us with…

Capturing very detailed normal maps using Photometric Stereo (R&D)

Photometric stereo. Edit: Since releasing this article, I’ve spent some time to create easy to use processing tool for non-technical artists that would like to try this technique – http://dabarti.com/capture ….

Interior rendering with V-Ray RT GPU 3.5 based on Evermotion scene.

Today after quick chat with Michał Franczak from Evermotion I’ve decided to test how hard it would be to render one of their scenes on GPU. They have kindly provided…

Review of V-Ray RT GPU 3.5 (Based on Beta 2)

Introduction: It has been over 7 months since the release of earlier Service Pack and we will be getting another free upgrade in Q1 of 2017. It’s now in public Beta stage….

Procedural bump in V-Ray GPU (RT) 3.5

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Testing Adaptive Lights in V-Ray 3.5 Adv (SP5 under development).

Something very good is about to be added to V-Ray. It’s called Adaptive Lights and it speeds up rendering huge amounts of lights. Still under R&D but it’s already very impressive….

Short guide to GPU rendering with V-Ray RT.

The aim of this guide is to help with switching to rendering on GPU with V-Ray and has all the basic information needed to better understand advantages and limitations of this…

Dabarti Light Assistant

Light Assistant helps with aligning reflections and adjusting the parameters of V-Ray lights. Main features: Interactively ALIGN lights reflection directly on the geometry. Hold shift for “Rim Light Mode”. Interactively…

Using V-Ray denoiser tool (vdenoise.exe) with send to scripts + Backburner submission.

General Idea. This is going to be quick tip for anyone who would love to easily denoise sequence of exr files with vdenoise.exe without typing in commands manually. This workflow could…

Building 4xGPU rack-mount rendering node

Few months ago we build 2 custom GPU rendering nodes. I’ve decided to share all the specs of what we ended up buying to make it easier to anyone who wants get something similar. List…

Procedural Scifi wall.

Quick and easy way of generating scifi looking elements / walls.

VRaymtl maps baking script,

New free script from us – V-ray maps baking script. v0.05 Features: Bakes texture maps: Diffuse, Reflection, Refraction, Reflection Glossiness, Refraction Glossiness, Normal Bump, Fresnel IOR, Opacity, Illumination. Creates VRayMtl with all textures correctly…

Alchemy for concept sketching.

What is Alchemy ? Alchemy is an open drawing project that is perfect for initial sketching needs. It’s not meant for creating finished artworks but as foundation for something bigger…

Making of Apples – free Videotutorial.

Making of tomatoes

Introduction. This little making of will show you the process of creation one of our last works. I will focus mainly on rendering and post-processing. Software used: 3ds Max 2012,…