There are several combinations you may choose by opening the "Indirect Illumination" panel in Vray options. Vray uses a primary and secondary render engine. Other options are directional, point, and spot lights. The most versatile and effective is the "Rectangular Light." With normal settings enabled, the size that you create this light at, and the distance it is placed from your scene will affect the light it casts. However, shadows are often soft and ambiguous.ĭirect: Various lights can be manually inserted into your scene for more descriptive or dramatic effect. This allows a scene to be well lit without manually adding lights. Indirect: Vray is a popular render program because of its "Global Illumination" (GI) feature. This way you can assign objects to layers that are organized and named by material.įollow the steps in the course page to assign materials to their corresponding layerĬonsider the two general categories of Vray lighting: Direct and Indirect. Follow the steps from the course page to develop a set of materials in VrayĪ good practice is to save a copy of your Rhino file dedicated to you render if you plan to continue editing the model. This is especially important if doing multiple renders to compile later on, or generating linework to add.Ĭonsider what type of materials you want to represent in your scene. You you should hide all non visible geometry (unless they will affect the lighting) to speed up rendering time.ĭont forget to save your view before rendering. For instance, you might want to eliminate some walls behind the camera to allow more light in, or make a section cut right behind the camera and hide that part of the building. You may need to make changes to your model to achieve your desired results. Consider changing the lens focal length in the viewport properties. With the SHOW option to see the camera movement in other viewports.
Then use Photoshop to compile and edit the final image.Ĭonsidering the discussion of successful renders, determine where you want your camera to be in your Rhino model.
We will use Vray to render a Rhino model using artificial lights.