This should be seen as further validation of the importance of the industrial design market. The first thing that should be noted is that the company is not targeting this at the VFX community, although there has been a lot of interest from the effects community around the announcement. Not only is this a bureau service, but it is possible for large companies to explore having their own VRscanners in house. After nearly five years of research and planning, the company now offers real world material scanning and textures. With the huge success of V-Ray and the growth of Chaos Group along with that, it was still a surprise to many to learn of VRscans. vrscan files tend to be quite large as they need to pack a lot of data (they need to describe the BRDF of the material over its entire surface).įor more details on VRscans, please see the Chaos Scans documentation space for information on downloadable sample scenes and Frequently Asked Questions or visit the website.Last week the Chaos Group moved from being a software provider to also being a hardware or service company.

In its present form, the material is targeted at users that need to match exactly a given real-world sample. You can only change the overall tint of the material. you can't change glossiness, increase reflectivity etc. Also, for the moment except for some general tint control, the material is unmodifiable - i.e. The material goes beyond single-point BRDF capture and can faithfully represent the textured appearance of a large number of real-world surfaces using bidirectional texture function ( BTF) approximation.īecause the scanned material simply reproduces the way a physical material responds to light, is has no notion of 'diffuse' or 'reflection' components, 'normal' or 'bump' maps.Ĭurrently, the material can render only opaque surfaces. The scanned material renders the captured appearance of an actual physical material sample, that has been scanned with special scanner hardware. Without a license, the material will render with a watermark, otherwise, it should be able to render the scenes. However, for earlier V-Ray versions, the Scanned Material requires a separate render license to work correctly. With V-Ray 6, the Scanned Material doesn't require a separate render license to work correctly.

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