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Overview
VFB+ v2.3 (Virtual Frame Buffer) is an advanced frame buffer for Autodesk™ 3ds Max™. It features an intuitive user interface, render history capabilities, a powerful color adjustment engine, a highly customizable frame stamping module and many more features that will help you improve your rendering workflow.
Best of all, it all happens right in the VFB, saving you the cumbersome process of cloning multiple frame buffers just to check out the difference, or opening your render in external image editing software only to test out some color adjustment options.
VFB+ works with any renderer which uses the 3dsmax frame buffer, e.g. Mental Ray, Final Render, V-Ray (when not using the V-Ray VFB).
Best of all, it all happens right in the VFB, saving you the cumbersome process of cloning multiple frame buffers just to check out the difference, or opening your render in external image editing software only to test out some color adjustment options.
VFB+ works with any renderer which uses the 3dsmax frame buffer, e.g. Mental Ray, Final Render, V-Ray (when not using the V-Ray VFB).
Key Features
Render History
- Automatically store all your session renders including all Render Elements and G-Buffer channels.
- Variety of display modes.
- Compare different images using various split A/B modes.
- Use the Film Strip to see all stored images.
Color Correction
- Linear-space multi-threaded processing.
- Various exposure, level and gamma controls.
- Vignette, Chromatic Aberration, Multi-channel curve editing and 3D LUT support.
- Get more done in the VFB, Adjust color correction even while rendering.
Stamper
- Apply rich graphic and text overlays to your image.
- Great for adding technical information, keeping track of render settings and for quick presentation graphics and titles.
- Add images such as company logos, or automatically tile subtle watermarks.
- Use a multitude of built-in variables, or add your own arbitrary MAXScript expressions.
Installation Instructions
Extract VFBPlus2.dlx from the ZIP file and place it in your 3dsmax \Plugins\ folder. Render as usual.
Similarly, to uninstall simply delete this file.
Testimonials
"I've been waiting for something like this for a long time, and VFB+ has exceeded my expectations. Lighting, shading and rendering workflow has become surprisingly easier and simpler. Anyone who renders in 3dsMax should use this plugin."
-Dave Levy, Lighting and Compositing Artist, UbiSoft
"VFB+ is the first plugin I install on a fresh copy of Max. If you do any rendering, from preview renders all the way to production, this tool will save you time and sanity! VFB+ adds elegance and simplicity to rendering and previewing that was sorely missing. Gone are the days of opening multiple Ram Players or cluttering your monitor with copied renders. The only downside to VFB+ is that you will be hooked and will never want to work without it again! I'm still waiting for my flying car and hoverboard, but the future is finally here with VFB+... now somebody get my rocket boots!"
-Pete Sedlacek, PSVisuals.com
"Now I cannot even imagine the work in 3dsmax without VFB+. This tool allows me to track how parameters changes influence on rendered image, to analyze how parameter changes influence on render time, to adjust rendered image in 2D programs and use it as reference for my parameters setup. By using VFB+ I can considerably faster improve ratio of rendered time to quality of final image. VFB+ is simple to install and from very beginning makes the work as a pleasure."
-Mike "RGhost" Samoilov, veda3d.com
"VFB+ is pretty much badass. I'm glad I gave it a spin. It's going to be listed in my next newsletter for Wall Worm users. I really love the filmstrip as well as the vertical split display. Keep up the great work... you've made a fan of me and I look forward to seeing what you come up with next."
-Shawn Olson, www.shawnolson.net
"VFB+ is such a great tool, it deserves all the glory it can get. I just can’t believe I didn't find it sooner, it would have saved me so much time! You can ask, how much time do I waste waiting for green light? How much time do I waste sleeping? Well tell me this, how much time do you waste on renders, and tests during a whole carreer?! VFB+ is one of those tools that just puts Autodesk at shame for not implementing it first. It integrates so well, making the learning curve non-existing. The way it keeps track of your images is just perfect, making it easy to know where you are, have been, and where you are going. If you want to limit the time testing, and get to the final render faster, then VFB+ is what you are looking for. Check it out, you will never go back!"
-Mats Ottesen, www.stir.no
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