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Introduction

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This tutorial covers the basic workflow of

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importing a vrscene file and rendering from Unreal Engine with V-Ray for Unreal

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. By the end of it, you will have a better understand of V-Ray for Unreal and how you can begin using it to render out your own scenes.

To follow this tutorial, you will need to have the V-Ray for Unreal plugin installed. This tutorial is a companion to go along with the QuickStart video posted on our YouTube channel and available here:

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Tutorial Assets

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Part I - Exporting the vrscene

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Step 1.

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Exporting vrscene from 3ds max

From  3ds max make sure you are looking through the camera you wish to render later in Unreal (1.1). Then you right click and select from the quad menu .vrscene exporter. A new window appears and where you select the export path and other various options. When finished click export (1.2). With this our vrscene is generated and we are ready to import it into Unreal engine.

 

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Part II - Creating Unreal project and initial setup

 

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Launch Unreal Engine 4

 

Launch you version of Unreal from the Epic Games Launcher. (currently supported versions are 4.18.3 and 4.19). In (1.1). A window appears.  In the New Project Tab create a new project........

 

select the Blank template, Desktop/Console hardware, Maximum quality for the Editor and No Starter Content as initial setup. Choose the directory where you wish to create the project, name it and click the Create Project button (1.2).

 

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Step 2. Enable The V-Ray Plugin 

 

When you create a project you must first enable the V-Ray plugin. From "Edit/Plugins" enable the VRayForUnreal plugin. You will need to restart Unreal for this to take effect.(2.2)


 

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New level Creation

 

Test Lightbake


 

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Refine the Render inside the VFB 


Save  the Render

 

 

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