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

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

Something that is really missing from vred is the ability to round the corners of geometry. In mental ray the round corners shader allow you do this. It is a shader trick that adjust the normals rather than actually subdiving the mesh. I know mental ray have a patent for theirs but vray have one(last time i used it it was not great), also modo have a really great one, along with the newly announced Octane 2.0.   It is extrememly useful when dealing with cad data as many mechanical parts have sharp edges and it helps so much to get the round corner effect so those sharp edges can pick up glints of light to feel more natural. Show More

As a Stingray, Unity, or Unreal, why don`t you add "real-time refraction" shaders? It will make almost scene looks better. Especially the scene includes Grass materials or water materials.   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

I am just missing an align tool in VRED like there is one in Maya... I need to position rims and tires and it be very helpful 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

The Substance tools (www.allegorithmic) are powerful procedural texturing tools which could enhance the handling of materials a lot in VRED. Substance is already implemented in many software like Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema4d, Unreal engine, Unity engine and much more...Basically the power of VRED and Substance Painter tools would fit greatly in most pipelines.   I just wanted to bring this request from Peter Jaritz and Eduardo Bivar they posted in the forum to the ideas station and support it. 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

The current method to perform a transform where you need to move the rotational axis is extremely cumbersome. Without having the ability to pick an object to set the center, it's a lot of guessing that results in lots of painful tries. Can this be improved to allow for better selection of rotational axis for single parts and multiple?      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

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

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 will be great to have cylindrical and spherical projection of the textures, in the mapping type of material editor window, easy to use, like planar, UV, and triplanar. Show More