When using the Skylight function to create a timelapse, it would be great to have a sky full of stars when it's night. It would also be great to be able to add simple volumetric clouds from the skylight menu.   Lastly, the ability to have them move with the time of day would be super helpful. Show More

Include updated ACES and custom OCIO Config support along with custom LUT support. Show More

Hello – I have an idea that would greatly enhance the way users can control the Scenegraph. We often find ourselves in situations that require us to restrict access to key components within the VRED template. The purpose of restrictions to certain nodes is to ensure users cannot break or damage key feature/functions of the template file we use. For example: We need to be able to ensure that users of the template cannot change a specific group or object node name which is important if a python script refers to that node. But the geometry below still needs the ability to be changed or updated. At this time there are 2 ways in VRED to restrict access - locking nodes in the scene graph or making them non-selectable. - Lock: currently everything below the locked node inherits this value - Lock is a very brute force command resulting in all sub-grouped items being 100% locked – this lacks control that we require in the Hyundai VRED template files. - Select: currently everything below that node inherits value - select toggle is very useful but also lacks the finite control. It would be very useful if the lock function was changed to be accessed through a context menu. - Offer control over which specific features are locked or not - Control over inherited value status for sub grouped items Key features: 1. The ability to lock specific nodes with or without it’s children being affected and being able to control what specific options are locked. Having finite control over the node’s lock status - not forced inherited values to all groups by default. Locking could have levels and would include already existing options that could be combined in the Lock menu - Lock selection (existing feature moved to this new proposed menu ) - Lock node name - Lock material assignment (for node / for tree) - Lock transform (and transform variants) - Lock Scenegraph position - Lock animation (would disable all Edit->Animation features that make changes to the selected node) - Lock baking (existing feature) - Lock hide/show - Lock metatags - Lock all / hierarchy (enable locked items for everything in the graph below, which is the current functionality or just the currently selected item) 2. Password protection to unlock a node would also be valuable. 3. This level of detail for locking would be needed in multiple editors, some of which already have a lock function  (options will differ depending on editor features available) : - Scene graph - Material Editor - Scene Plate Editor I am attaching a file of what the context menu could look like as reference. Let me know if anyone has questions. Thanks -Chris Show More

It would be great if VRED offered a feature that allows scattering objects (as instances) across a base surface using customizable parameters. A common use case would be distributing vegetation within environment scenes. A nice example of this can be seen in D5 (D5 Scatter Tool). The following capabilities would be especially helpful for configuring scattering.   Selection of the Scatter Objects Choose a single object or a collection of objects (e.g. from an asset library) Distribution Methods Scatter across the entire selected geometry Scatter within specific sub‑areas (of the geometry): Place objects by clicking directly on the base surface Brush‑based distribution with adjustable brush size Distribution along splines Use of color maps to define sub‑areas, enabling different objects or collections based on color regions Distribution Details (depending on the placement method) Density: Objects per unit area, optionally controlled by a density map Weighting: Probability of occurrence for each object within a collection Distance: Minimum/maximum spacing between objects, optionally using collision volumes Region settings (region size, blur, etc.): For the “entire geometry” method, regions can be generated randomly based on size and frequency (e.g., Region 1 with Object A, Region 2 with Object B) Smooth transitions between regions adjustable via blur parameters Alignment: Align objects to surface normals or keep alignment independent Offset: Vertical offset of all scattered objects from the base surface Collisions: Options for handling collisions with other scene objects Variation Random scale values (min/max) per axis or uniform scaling Optional position jittering (min/max) per axis Random rotation values (min/max) per axis Seed value to control the overall randomness of the scattering variation Show More

When making a change to a variant set - currently, you need to go through the Sets one by one to make a change.   Let's say you need to change a geometry switch, and that switch is present in a Variant Group, and the Group has 100 Variant Sets in it. Currently, you need to manually go into each Set and manually adjust the switch.   It would be great if you could bulk select the whole group, and make a change to a specific line item/switch and have it update to any selected Set.   Currently, this functionality works in Cameras where you bulk select a viewports in a camera and then make a change and it be applied to all selected cameras - it would be a huge time save if this was available for Variant Sets. Show More

To manage animations like robot arms it would be good if we have the Inverse kinematics support. Now i have to animate every joint individually or manage the animation in Max (or other) and then use the Fbx to import it in Vred. Best Chris   Show More

When you duplicate things now:   Thing001 (original) - Thing2 - Thing3 - Thing4 - Thing5 - ..... - Thing10   What it should be   Thing001 (original) - Thing002 - Thing003 - Thing004 - ...... - Thing010 Show More

It should be good to have also a Path Constraint to manage object moving on a spline. For moving objects, chains, tracks...   Best Chris Show More

We use VRED as the final render software AND as a dataprep tool to export prepped CAD data to other DCC tools (Blender, 3DS Max). The exchange with FBX loses most of the material appearance (not material assignment) and requires a separate material library in each application. It would be nice to have USD/glTF import and export as a standardized exchange format that includes PBR materials. As Susanna Holt from Autodesk mentioned during the recent NVidia GTC 2021 talk about USD as the foundation of the Nvidia Omniverse (https://gtc21.event.nvidia.com/media/t/1_1loj9flh ), Autodesk is investigating USD as an exchange format. Also it would have the benefit of being able to quickly demonstrate VRED models on iOS devives in AR. Show More

Hello,    We have a use case where we have multiple variant sets. Within Each there are multiple Material Switches. Each Switch has 100+ materials (yes I know thats crazy). When we are trying to create a new V-Set for each vehicle configuration we have to use the very poor Drop Down menu in the V-Set Editor to select the material.    Would really like to be able to update the V-Set currently active from the Material Editor. If there could be just a RMB Drop Down Menu -> 'Apply to Current Variant Set'     This would simplify things a bunch.   Thanks   N Show More

when you isolate a geometry or a node, this does not affect lights. in particular, if you have area lights in your scene, they all become visible, even the one hidden or nested in switches.   this is annoying in particular when you have multiple lights simulating displays Show More

It will be very good to have the possibility to use an Autodesk Cloud Service as the "Rendering in the Cloud" also for VRED. In fact a Render Farm usable with Credit Clouds. For small business could be very useful.   Best Chris Show More

Lots of renders/applications have implemented these solutions in order to help heavily reduce/eliminate repeating texture issues that can occur especially on large areas like grounds/roads/walls etc   This would be great to see supported in Vred   Stochastic Tiling: https://youtu.be/EAtIK91pqWc?t=1965 Hex Tiling: https://youtu.be/jPTQCXkxqwk?t=999 Thanks,   Richard Show More

Hi everyone, I've noticed that the IOR has no contribute in real time OpenGL viewport, so I'm suggesting to implement this type of effect maybe looking at what Blender EEVEE already does, I understand that it's a strong approximation but it's better than nothing in my opinion. Show More

The Touchsensor window does not fit the general VRED UI and should be updated. It should be Touchsensor Editor. - Needs search function - Needs groups - Needs to remember if items were expanded or not (all sensors currently expand on their own)   The window just needs to be updated with features that other windows like the Material Editor already have. Because there are no groups and everything expands all the time the window gets very hard to use very quickly if there are a lot of touchsensors. Show More

Wouldn't it be nice to have some atmospheric/ volumetric effects like fog or smoke and dust in VRED? Show More

Hello,   i work on VRED 2016 for a major car company in wolfsburg. i'm trying to generate Materials from a XML based Material library. I encounter some issues with creating Materials via Python Script.   for example: fieldAccess parameters for imageMaps are not consistent. u always have to experiment ---> roughnessMap works different than specularMap i could create a specularMap but no roughnessMap   Why create a specularMap for a UPlasticMaterial, wich uses glossyMaps in the Material Editor   How to access the Use ICC Profile field and set Input Gamma via script instead How to access Lab values for Material Colors via script   Big Problem also while investigating: The NodeEditor doesn't update on Material Editor changes and vice versa.   The Documentation is only Useful for experienced Programmers Show More

When rendering via command line it would be great to get increased level of verbose messages in regards to render status % complete etc. At the moment we render very high resolution frames via deadline and it is always a worry when we see a shot still rendering after 10 hours and never quite sure where it is in the render and we have to check the cpus are running etc to make sure it is actually still rendering. Show More

I'm a big fan of VRED and use it a lot in my work. The ability to use Substance materials directly in VRED is awesome. Another collection of world-class materials ready to use is Nvidia's MDL library with thousands of materials. It would be nice if we could use them directly in VRED like the Substance one.   The best part is that the whole library is for free!   That would be a great helper everyone's daily work.   Kind regards Željko Show More