If you are starting fresh, then it can take two weeks to 1 month to learn the basics. Generally, it will take around one week to learn V-Ray if you are already familiar with 3D-rendering. But it would be best if you learned the principles of photorealism in the first place. If you are aiming for photorealism, V-Ray is a good choice. It gives the user the option to set their own preferences and determine what the output will look like and how long it will take to render. You can find in it the Corona Materials, which makes you able to assign physical properties to objects such as colors, transparency, or opacity. The interface and the overall logic are similar to the famous Maxell Render. However, it is comfortable and friendly for settings, with few parameters, which allows you to focus on realism, lighting, and materials. In addition, other things as well that you have to discover yourself later.Ĭorona’s interface is a little more complicated compared to V-Ray’s.

Besides all these, a File Manager allows you to manage all of your scene files in one place, set file paths, create scene archives, and keep track of assets like textures, IES files, and proxy objects. There is the V-Ray Color Picker, a color manager that allows numeric color value selection in Screen (sRGB) and Rendering (RGB) Color spaces. In the interface, you can find the Frame Buffer that contains a variety of additional rendering tools. It includes several toolbars with easy shortcuts to some of the most commonly used V-Ray features.

V-Ray has an interface that is not as complicated as you may think.

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