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VRImg to OpenEXR Converter is a dedicated utility provided by Chaos for converting native V-Ray render files ( ) into the widely supported OpenEXR (
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If a render is interrupted, V-Ray can read the existing .vrimg file to determine which buckets are already finished and resume exactly where it left off.
vrimg2exr input.vrimg output.exr
Vrimg solved this by rendering the image directly to the hard drive in a tile-based manner, rather than storing the whole frame buffer in RAM. It is an uncompressed, full floating-point format that stores all render elements (passes) in a single file. While efficient, it is proprietary. Outside of V-Ray specific tools (like V-Ray Frame Buffer), very few third-party applications can read it.
@echo off for %%F in ("%1\*.vrimg") do ( vrimg2exr "%%F" "%%~dpnF.exr" del "%%F" /q ) If you are a professional rendering hundreds of
vrimg2exr -i scene.vrimg -o converted.exr