lyca

Hi all,

to optimize my render to elements workflow i'm looking for tools who makes it faster.
i came around cebas psd-manager and am thinking to buy it but before investing the 172USD i'd like to know if some people use it and does it makes things faster over the normal render to elements workflow ?

cheers

cebas

Hello Lyca,

I though I might provide some resources to help you in your decision. Please have a look at our product page for psd-manager here if you have not yet:

Click on the image to go to the product page:



Also take a look at this feature demo video that shows many of psd-managers tools in action here:

Click the image to play the video (Flash required):


Hopefully some users will chime in too to help you out. If not, please check the cebas forum as well. There is a lot of very helpful psd-manager users there that can answer questions etc.

Hope that helps
Thanks
Michael McCarthy
cebas USA

lyca

thanks for the reply, looks very exciting, i have an other question :

is it working well with max 2009 and vray ?

i like the idea that it does not add time to the rendering.

cebas

Yep psd-manager is working very well with 2009 and I believe Vray too. For more specific Vray answers hop over to the cebas forum. There will be guys there with experience.

Thanks a bunch
Michael McCarthy
cebas USA

alrawli

Thanks for posting the links! Looks like a great bit of kit. Going to have a word with people in the office on monday looks like it might work very well with a couple of projects we are doing at the momnet.

SandmanNinja

Thanks for posting the links - really a great looking product for streamlining POST work.

I was going to download the demo, but it doesn't work for Max 2008/2009.
Any plans on releasing a demo for the newer versions of Max?

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Trick

psd-manager does not work well with vray opacity maps (multiple layers on top of each other...changing Max transparency settings does not work either)because of the way the buffers are calculated in vray. Even vray's own multimatte element does not work with them.

cebas

This sounds like (but may not be) a common issue were you are not increasing the Gbuffer layer amount enough to accommodate for the opacity. I believe if you raise these then all should work well. If this is not the case please do post your issue with a simple scene on our support forum so that we may get it straitened out ASAP (If we can.. May just be lack of Vray support for real Gbuffer info).

I would highly recommend asking about this (and any other questions) on our forum. Our developers are very helpful and fast to respond as well as the psd-manager user community.

Thanks a bunch
Michael McCarthy
cebas USA

cebas

Hello Joel,

While the latest psd-manager does support 2008 and 2009, you are correct that the demo does not yet. We are working on an updated demo but have no "release" date for that yet.

Thanks
Michael McCarthy
cebas USA

SandmanNinja

Thanks for the info and the reply, Michael.

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