Versions Compared

Old Version 9

changes.mady.by.user Gergana Lilkova

Saved on

compared with

New Version Current

changes.mady.by.user Kristina Gaytandzhieva

Saved on

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

Section
Column
width60%

The Self Illumination Render Element stores the illumination of any self-illuminated materials in the scene. It isolates self-illuminated materials, including V-Ray Mesh Lights, objects with the VRayLightMtl, and any objects with Self-Illumination enabled in their V-Ray material. This render element is useful for brightening or color-correcting self-illuminated materials in the final composite.

For example, the material VRayMtl has a parameter for self-illumination. If this parameter is set to a non-black color value, this render element shows the results of the self-illumination.


UI Expand
titleUI Path: ||Render Setup window|| > Render Elements tab > Add button > VRaySelfIllumination

 

Image Modified

Column
width5%

 

Column
width35%

Image RemovedImage Added

 

 

Parameters  

...

Section
Column
width60%

This render element is enabled through the Render Elements tab of the Render Setup window in 3ds Max and displays its parameters in a rollout at the bottom of the window:

VRayVFB  –  When enabled, the render element appears in the V-Ray frame buffer.

Deep output – Specifies whether to include this render element in deep images.

Color mapping  – Applies the color mapping options specified in the Color mapping rollout (Render Setup window > V-Ray tab) to this render element. This option is enabled by default.

Multiplier  – Sets the overall intensity of the render element, where 1.0 is the standard multiplier.

Denoise –  Specifies whether to denoise this render element.

Column
width5%

 

Column
width35%

 

Common Uses

...

The Self Illumination Render Element is useful for changing the appearance of self-illuminated surfaces, after rendering, in a compositing or image editing software. Below are two examples of its use.

 

Section
Column
width10%

 

Column
width40%

Image Removed
Self Illumination Render Element

Column
width40%

Image Removed
Original Beauty Composite

Column
width10%

 

 

 

Section
Column
width10%

 

Column
width40%

Image Removed
Color of self-illuminated surface changed in composite

Column
width40%

Image Removed
Intensity of self-illuminated surface reduced in composite

Column
width10%

 

 

See the render before and after compositing.

Before after
Panel
borderStylenone

Image Added

Panel
borderStylenone

Image Added

 

Compositing Formula

...

The VRaySelfIllumination Render Element is added Added to the Beauty render to form the final image.

Image Removed Image Added

 

 

Notes

...

Fancy Bullets
typecircle
  • This element contains only the light geometry itself, not the light emitted from it. Lighting information is contained in the Lighting Render Elements.