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The Beauty Render Elements are the primary render elements that form V-Ray's pre-composited final render Beauty. When rendering a scene, the image that is output is called the Beauty render. This render is comprised of many elements such as diffuse color, shadows, lighting, and reflections that are composited together to form that final Beauty look. All these component elements may be broken out into separate render elements which can be used to control different aspects of the final image during compositing.

With this workflow, sometimes called "Back to Beauty" Compositing, many components in the render – from its lighting, reflections, and refractions, to its shadows and Global Illumination – can be easily adjusted. As a result, the Beauty render can be fine-tuned without the need to re-render the scene, thus saving time and increasing artistic options.

More information on the process of Back to Beauty Compositing may be found on the Beauty Render Element page.

Beauty

Alpha 

Diffuse 

Specular

GI 

GI Raw

Lighting 

Light Select

Light Raw 

Light Total 

Light Raw Total

Reflection 

Reflection Raw 

Reflection Filter 

Reflection Glossiness 

Reflection Highlight Glossiness

Refraction

Refraction Raw

Refraction Filter 

Refraction Glossiness 

Shadow

Shadow Raw 

Matte Shadow

Atmospheric Effects 

Background 

Caustics 

Self Illum 

SSS