v10 AutoDesSys RenderZone Plug-in for form•Z – Perpetual

RenderZone also includes the ability to produce images based on global illumination techniques, which create renderings with the most realism, as the illumination of a scene considers the accurate distribution of light in the environment. In RenderZone, global illumination includes final gather, ambient occlusion, and radiosity techniques, which can be applied separately or combined.

Renderings can be developed by adding effects one at a time, trading increased realism for rendering speed. Initial renderings may be shaded. FAdd global illumination effects one at a time to increase realism. Portions of the scene may be rendered with the Render Area rectangle, allowing for small snapshots of the scene to be generated at much-reduced rendering speed.

One or more lights can be used: ambient, distant (sun), cone, point, projector, area, custom, line, environment, or atmospheric lights. Lights may appear to glow in images, simulating the reflection of lights off dust particles in the air. Environment and atmospheric lights are advanced lights, specially optimized for global illumination. Other light types produce soft (mapped) or hard (raytraced) shadows.

Cubic and spherical environment mapping, bumps, and backgrounds that include alpha channel support, depth effects, and post-processing effects can be applied. Blur is an example of a post-processing effect that simulates focusing your camera on a particular area of your modeling scene. Sky backgrounds that are procedurally generated come close to real skies that you may have captured with your camera.

State-of-the-art shaders are used to render surfaces and other effects. A Material is defined by up to four layers of shaders, which produce color, reflections, transparency, and bump effects. Produce patterns in shaders can be pre-captured images or by a procedure. Transparencies, reflections, and refractions can be applied at the z-buffer and raytrace levels. The reflections and refractions are always correctly raytraced, even when the z-buffer rendering produces them. This is achieved by applying a mixed rendering method, where surfaces with no reflections are rendered using a z-buffer and the rendering effects of reflective surfaces are produced using raytracing.

Accelerate raytraced renderings by the use of multiple processors.

Also available, the sketch rendering mode produces nonphotorealistic images, appearing as if created by manual rendering techniques, such as oil painting, watercolor, or pencil hatches.

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