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Get professional quality rendering without the associated high costs when using SolidRocks. When asked to render a difficult, dark interior scene, with lots of glossies and GI detail, SolidRocks came in at 3 times faster! Streamline your rendering workflow with SolidRocks for 3ds Max/V-Ray today!

For ultimate ease of use, SolidRocks comes with modular GUI and useful tools and settings to stay concentrated on creation instead of losing time on tedious technical settings. The GUI can be collapsed at any moment into a mini/essential GUI.

• Compact Interface
  SolidRocks interface (GUI) can be compacted at any moment (using the “compact UI” button). This give user more room for work, while maintaining access to essential tools (IPR, render, create V-Ray objects).
• New Vertical Command Panel
  This vertical strip allows to open/close needed Panels. Right click on it to save/use your preferred combinations.
• Render Size Panel
  All important resolution parameters are under your mouse pointer. SR gives quick access to standard Formats, Safe Frame (SF) on/off, Print Wizard assistant.
• Render Quality Rollout (The Main Panel)
  • Try different GI methods easily with the new GI Method selector.
  • Just choose the desired quality and press the Render button.
  • IPR quick access. Works for Both Adv and GPU engines (V-Ray NEXT)
  • Denoise button : activates the denoise render element (V-Ray 3.4+)
  • AO (Ambient occlusion) and DE (Detail Enhance) are now accessible for best convenience.
  • NEW: “P” button for V-Ray 3.0 Progressive AA option.
  • NEW: GPU/ADV button for engine switch
  • Choose required preset, or make your own!
  • Quick access to last rendered image (Show Last).
  • Quick access to Render dialog panel (RD).
  • Override Max region options with Region button.
  • NEW: Unified Save feature. Select final path/filename right into SolidRocks, and use “Save” and “Elements”, whatever you’re using max or V-Ray frame buffer, SolidRocks will manage the saving.
  • Quick access to Distributed Rendering (DR) and BackBurner (BB) rendering.
• Preview Panel
  A mini preview render is integrated in SolidRocks. It helps user to achieve a complete gamma correction (consistent gamma into viewports, material editor and rendering). Now Linear workflow is simple as a click.
  • gamma sRGB or User mode
  • Post button for gamma baking in postprod
  • Show overexposed pixels (OverX) to assist exposure settings
  • Auto Exposure tool to adjust camera shutter speed
  • Auto White Balance tool to adjust camera’s custom colour balance
• Color Mapping Panel
  Thanks to this rollout you gain fast access to essential colour mapping options. Use the slider to setup your preferred exponential/linear ratio. Of course these settings (and all others) are saved and restored with each scene.
• Xpert Panel for Power Users
  This panel extends solidrocks interface to give you more tools; like Shared light cache tool, Clay tool, and the new “Perfect direct Caustics” tool.
• Infos Panel
  This panel shows in real time the essential V-Ray settings changing when the user changes the resolution and/or adjusts the desired quality. This view provides a global overview of V-Rray settings, and helps new V-Ray users to learn the most important settings in V-Ray to deal with quality and render times. V-Ray power users will find here the opportonity to give an eye on essential values before hitting “Render” button.

Version: 2.3.3
Release Date: 2020 August 21

• Compatible with V-Ray 5 (hotfix 2)
• Compatible with 3ds Max 2023
• Handles the 2 V-Ray Next engines: Adv and GPU (Hybrid)! With one single click you can now switch between the 2 flavors of V-Ray Next
• Bucket or progressive mode in single click
• Optimized presets for both engines (editable using the preset editor) with better quality on production settings
• IPR button working with both engines
• New gamma workflow matching modern workflows
• All new V-Ray features now turned ON for full power (VBAA, Autopilot, Dyn Thr, Srgb VFB and Gi Caustics)