V-Ray Render Setup

Good morning!  I have been bombarded with request to explain my render setup for my strip mall render. 

The render was accomplished using V-Ray 1.50.SP5 for Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design. Post production was done using Adobe® Photoshop® CS5.

In V-Ray you have hundreds of little toggles and spinners that control your render. V-Ray uses a very advanced algorithm and I would suggest, to help maintain your sanity, to learn what all the settings do.

Below you’ll find some screen grabs of my workflow:

3ds max preference - gamma settings

V-Ray Color Mapping

 Leave “clamp output” unchecked so you can access all that 32-bit floating point pixel information in Photoshop. 

sRGB color space

V-Ray raw image file

More to come!