V-Ray Materials & UDIMs - Razor Crest VFX Lecture 02

In this second part of the Razor Crest lecture series, we're starting to discuss PBR with the V-Ray Mtl and assigning UDIM textures in the Hypershade. In the next two videos, we'll go over reflection settings, Metalness (Metallic), and glass.
These lectures were originally built for a college VFX class that I teach, taking students from beginner to intermediate level. Over the course of this 9-hour course, brush up on PBR surfacing with UDIMs, learn about lighting, AOVs, render layers, batch and sequence rendering, EXR compositing, and ACEScg with Maya, V-Ray, and After Effects.
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[@jo.kertech]

Hello, I really like your Lecture :) Im pretty new to Maya and Vray so I dont understand everything but I have a small problem here: When I load the .tif file and rename it to razorCrest_v004_mainMat_BaseColor..tif I just get an error code in Maya: // Warning: Texture file sourceimages/rctextures/razorCrest_v004_mainMat_BaseColor..tif doesn't exist, node file1. Whats the issue here?

[@jo.kertech]

Oh wait you have the exact same error code, nvm then, im grinding through your Lessons now!

[@CGStirk]

@@jo.kertech It's all good. Let me know if you have any other questions.

[@piyushyadav4948]

Maya bonus tools has a function to rename all file nodes corresponding to their texture file name. It saves me a lot of hassle.

[@CGStirk]

I completely forgot about Bonus Tools. Idk why they aren't included by default. I'll check it out!

[@Bigguns761]

Please can you do one explaining how to use UDIM with the vray displacement please ! I'm a max user trying to learn shading in maya and it's a nightmare ! But this helped me a LOT with the UDIM great tuto keep it up !

[@CGStirk]

I'm not sure why there would be a difference with displacement. Can't you just use the tag or set the UV Tiling Mode to UDIM in the file node? Are you doing displacement on the shader group or on the object?

[@tondann]

Quite unfortunate I did not discover you earlier - this is excellent content right here

[@CGStirk]

Thanks man

[@alainkurtmelgar6553]

learned a lot. thank you.

[@CGStirk]

Awesome!

[@blacklight4720]

Thanks man.

[@CGStirk]

Thanks for watching

[@gtatak9805]

Maya version?

[@CGStirk]

This is was recorded when I was using Maya 2022.1

[@aryaman3083]

@@CGStirk i use maya 2023 and i hope everything is same as 2022

[@CGStirk]

@@aryaman3083 As far as I'm aware there are. Don't know if V-Ray is out for 2023 yet. These tutorials were recorded six months by the way, so there might be some differences, hopefully minor.