The Total Lighting Render Element stores all direct and indirect lighting in the scene.
Overview
The Total Lighting Render Element is a color image that includes the effects of both direct and indirect lighting on materials in the scene, including the diffuse component. It is a result of adding the vrayRE_Lighting and vrayRE_GI render elements, or of multiplying the vrayRE_Raw_Total_Light and vrayRE_Diffuse Render Elements.
To use render elements, select from the Available render elements column and click the Add button to add the passes you wish to generate at render time. When you render the scene, the added render elements listed in the column on the right, will also render, which can be viewed from the VFB window's channel drop-down menu.
For more information on the parameters on this dialog, see the Render Elements tab page.
Attributes
The parameters for this render element appear in the Attribute Editor under Extra V-Ray Attributes.
Enabled – When checked, the render element appears in the V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer.
Deep output – Specifies whether to include this render element in deep images.
Filename suffix – The text added to the end of the rendered file, when saved as a separate file (e.g. myrender.totalLight.vrimg).
Apply color mapping – Applies the color mapping options specified in the Color mapping rollout of the VRay tab in the Render Settings window to this render element. This option is enabled by default.
Denoise – Enables the render element's denoising, provided the Denoiser render element is present.
Common uses
The Total Lighting Render Element is useful for brightening or dimming all lighting during compositing. Below are a couple of examples of its use.
Total Lighting Render Element
Original Beauty Composite
Brightened Total Lighting Render Element
Brightened and tinted Total Lighting Render Element
Brightened Lights
Tinted Lights
Compositing Formulas
vrayRE_Raw_Total_Light x vrayRE_Diffuse = vrayRE_Total_Light
vrayRE_Lighting + vrayRE_GI = vrayRE_Total_Light
