Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Visible Light Paths



Visible Light Paths
View spot light beams as if shining in a hazy room.

This feature creates a transparent lamp beam with a pattern to emulate light passing through a smoky or foggy room.

You can define a visible light beam on the spot-light creation wizard.

Lighting Channels


 
Adjust groups of light with slider bars
 
Lighting Channels is an important new feature of IRender nXt which lets you quickly adjust light sources. By assigning channels to sun, sky, and groups of lights, you can quickly adjust the intensity of each channel with a slidebar and immediately see the effect on the final rendering.

You can quickly adjust the intensity of each channel with a slide bar and immediately see the effect on the final rendering. This will saves time both in determining the relative intensities to use for light sources and in fine tuning the final image before publication.

In Version 3.5, Lighting Channels are integrated into the Batch Renderer, as well as used separately with the nXt Image Editor.

Videos and Tutorials

Auto Reflection for renderings

Auto Reflection

 
 
Auto Reflection makes materials with words like metal or plastic in them reflective based on the words in the material name - without having to set material properties for each material individually.
This can make it easier to get photo realistic results from models - especially models with components in them which use materials which you did not create or define - without having to spend time to set basic reflection, or other material properties on each the materials.

For example, you can specify that all materials with the word "steel" in them should be 90% reflective and metallic.

Any materials with the matching words in them, and for which you have not already set specific material properties, will get the properties from the Auto Reflection Wizard.
(If you do set material properties your self for a material, those settings will override the Auto Material settings.)

Auto Reflection is included in the latest version of IRender nXt, ArielVision and the 3D Design Studio 
  • See: Auto Reflection