Chaos Group Vrscans

The World's Most Accurate Material Scans

VRscans is combination of a hardware-based scanning system and a software-based rendering plugin that work together to easily create material properties for creating realistic renderings without the usual workflow of texture maps and tweaking shader settings. This enables a high level of accuracy for visualizing real-world materials in renders.

Highlights

The process begins with a scan of an existing real-world object surface. VRscans uses BTF (bidirectional texture functions) instead of BRDF approximations (such as Phong, Blinn, Ward, etc) to capture a materials true surface appearance, texture data, and its unique response to light.

All this information is then stored in a unique VRscans material format. This scanned material is then read in to the CG scene using the VRscans plugin and is ready for rendering through V-Ray without much (if any) additional tweaking required to match the original scanned material's surface.

VRscans Plugin – is a workstation (1 GUI + 1 Render Node) license that allows a user to load and render scanned materials. Licenses are offered as monthly or annual rentals. (This includes access to the ever-growing library of physically scanned materials such as leather, fabrics, wood, etc.)

VRscans Render Node – is for users looking to render .vrscans on their render farm. It does not include the GUI.

VRscans Service – for customers looking for full service physical material scans. Visit vrscans.com for more info on this service.

VRSCANS KEY FEATURES

• Adjust UV tiling – adjust the scale of the texture tiling by interactively clicking on the object's mesh
• Control the color – tint the color of the original scanned surface to suit your scene's needs by adjusting the Filter color on the scanned material node
• Easily read information on the scanned object – the scanned material hosts information fields that display information from the original scanned object such as the size of the physical sample used to scan the material.
• Set the Subdivision level – control quality and speed of reflections by adjusting subdivisions of reflection rays as well as the Trace Depth to set the number of reflection bounces needed
• Index of Refraction – scanned materials with a clear coat layer, like car paint,  also have an accurate IOR value that is obtained from the scanning process for the surface
• Adjustable surface bump – the VRscan process stores a built-in bump map for the clear coat layer of the scanned material that can be controlled for the needs of the scene