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If you’ve ever tried using Digimation’s Speedtree plugin in V-Ray, you’ve undoubtedly run into major problems. They render painfully slow, there are blurry parts, flickering in animation– a world of trouble.

There has been a lot of discussion on nerdy forums as to whether or not Digimation’s SpeedTree plugin can be used in V-Ray. I’m here to tell you, they can. You just have to go through a little workaround to get them looking good.
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You’ve spent all this time setting up your cameras, rendering over Backburner, and now you’re staring at a list of codecs. By now, you might have gone through about seven of them, only to find they show up black, choppy, or error-y. Which one works in Powerpoint? I’m going to take the mystery out of this for you– kind of like that “Masked Magician” guy did for magic on that FOX show.

(To be quick about this, it’s Windows Media Video 9, 720×480, 0.9 Pixel Aspect Ratio, 10,000kbps.  But here’s how to do it…)

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I spent a couple days updating this site with new context buildings, trees, and textures. Here are the results:

I made these pretty pictures at work.
Software: 3d Studio Max, V-Ray, Photoshop