Our team is looking to use Rhino, Bongo, and VRay for animations. Specifically we are looking to set up complex animations leveraging Bongo animation tools and then render them with the VRay Chaos Cloud rendering service. So far we have been able to use the Chaos Cloud service for rendering still images from Rhino and simple camera path animations from Rhino. However Bongo does not seem to have compatibility with sending jobs to the VRay Chaos Cloud. It seems to only be capable of frame by frame batch rendering locally with VRay.
Is there any workaround for this or any planned way to communicate Bongo animations to the Vray Cloud? This would be a huge feature for us that we are hoping to find a solution to.
Thank you for your question!
Bongo can render animations using V-Ray, however, it cannot export frame sequences as .vrscene files (used for scene transfer to Chaos Cloud)
The V-Ray for Rhino dev team is actively working on animation tool optimizations, mainly in V-Ray for Grasshopper. Although Bongo is not currently on focus, I’ve logged a request for assessment of possible solutions to exporting V-Ray data for Cloud rendering out of Bongo animations.
Will post again when there is any development to report. The current state of support for Bongo is listed in https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VNFR/Supported+Features#SupportedFeatures-3rd-partyplugins
Kind regards,
Peter Chaushev
V-Ray for Rhino QA Specialist www.chaosgroup.com
me too now my customers want more and more Vray for Rhino animations and I rely on Bongo for that
Right now it s brutal to render each frame one at a time using the cloud service.
Hope there ll be a nice integration between Bongo and Vray Cloud.
Yes +1
It is May 2022 already. Can’t believe we still have to render a Rhino-Bongo animation on VRay Cloud on a frame-by-frame basis!.. I have 5400 frames!..
Aplogies for the late reply!
To answer your question directly, further V-Ray support for Bongo animations will be developed once the Bongo 3 API is finalized.
As for Cloud-rendering multiple .vrscene files exported from Bongo - this can be achieved with the V-Ray for Rhino Batch Render tool:
Open the Rhino menu “V-Ray > V-Ray Rendering > Batch Render”.
Click the “Open File” button at the bottom-left corner.
Choose “VRScene” file format from the dropdown menu, select the .vrscene files from Bongo and click “Open”.
Once all files are listed, press the Cloud button of the Batch Render tool. It will open the Chaos Cloud interface in your web browser.
Wait for all scenes to be analyzed, then submit them with a single click.
Please note that when using this approach it is not possible to set a credit limit for all jobs with a single action. If you wish to limit all jobs or automate the submit process using batch files, please refer to the manual at Common Use Cases - Chaos Cloud - Chaos Help . For assistance with preparing such .json batch files, please reach out to Chaos Support at https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new .
My bad, I misled with my previous comment, apologies!
Frame export to vrscene file instead of direct export to the V-Ray renderer is currently not possible with Bongo. It is something we would like to implement once certain changes are done on Bongo’s side.