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Gizmo – Allows Gizmo - allows you to connect a a Fog Gizmo so  so that the effect is confined within a specified gizmovolume.

Color – An input slot for a texture defining Color - defines the color of the fog when it is illuminate by light sources. You can also use a texture map to drive the fog color.

Emission - controls – Controls the fog emission (self-illumination). You can use this parameter to substitute the ambient illumination inside the fog, instead of using GI.

Emission Mult:- a – A multiplier for the Emission parameterthe Emission parameter.

Density - a –  A multiplier for the fog Distance parameter the Fog distance parameter that allows a texture to be used for the density of the fog.

Lights - allows  – Allows you to specify which lights are going to affect the fog.

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Fog Color – Defines the color of the fog when it is illuminated by light sources.

Subdivs – Determines

Use Height - when enabled allows you to limit the fog height

Height - specifies an upper limit for the fog

Subdivs - this parameter determines the number of points inside the fog at which volumetric lighting is evaluated. Smaller values for this parameter render faster, but may produce noise in the image. Higher values render longer, but with less noise.

Use Height – When enabled, you are able to limit the fog height.

Height – Specifies an upper limit for the fog height.

Fog Distance – Controls Distance - controls the fog density. Larger values make the fog more transparent, while smaller values make it more dense. You can also control the density with a texture map. See the Fog Distance example below.

 Fog Density – A multiplier for the Fog distance parameter that allows a texture to be used for the density of the fog.

Simplify Textures for GI – When enabled, V-Ray uses Simplify GI - When this option is checked V-Ray will use a simplified method for calculating the GI when rendering parts of the fog that are textured or are being faded out.

Scatter GI - when on – When enabled, the fog will also scatter scatters global illumination. Note Please note that this can be quite slow. In many cases, global illumination within the fog can be substituted with a simple emission term. When this option is on, the currently selected global illumination algorithm in the V-Ray settings will be is used to accelerate GI inside the volume.

Scatter bounces - when  – When Scatter GI is enabled, this parameter controls the number of GI bounces that will be are calculated inside the fog.

Light Mode

 – Allows you to specify which lights

are considered when rendering the environment fog. It is used when you have certain lights affecting just specific objects in the scene while another group of lights is affecting the environment fog.

No lights

 – Lights in the scene

do not affect the environment fog.

Per-Gizmo (default)

 – Lights attached to the environment fog set

are ignored. Only the lights affecting the shape where the fog resides,

are used.
Override

 – Only lights affecting the environment fog set

are considered.
Intersect

 – Only lights that are affecting both the shape and the environment fog set

are considered.
Add

 – Lights affecting both the shape and the environment fog set

are considered.

Fade Out Mode – Allows you to choose between two different falloff modes: Multiply and Substract.

Fade Out Radius – When the fog effect is contained within a gizmo this option allows you to specify a falloff radius for it. This way the fog effect does not have sharp edges at the edges of the gizmo.

Step size – Determines the size of one step through the volume. Smaller steps produce more accurate results but are slower to render. In general, dense volumes require smaller step sizes than more transparent volumes. In practice, step sizes that are two to three times smaller than the Fog distance parameter work well.

Tex Samples – Determines the number of texture samples for each step through the volume. This allows to sample textures more accurately than the volumetric lighting. It is useful in cases where the textures vary much faster than the lighting itself (e.g. for detailed fractal textures).

Max steps – Specifies the maximum number of steps through the volume.

Cutoff Threshold – Determines when the raymarcher stops traversing the volume. If the accumulated volume transparency falls below this threshold, the volume is considered opaque and tracing is aborted. Higher values make the rendering faster but may introduce artifacts.

Affect Shadows – Determines whether the fog affects the shadow rays.

Solid Mode – When enabled, V-Ray sample the fog uniformly.

Shadow Opacity – Controls the opacity of shadows cast by the fog.

Solid Threshold – A fraction of the Density parameter at which V-Ray samples the fog when Solid Mode is enabled.

Affect Background – When this option is off, the background is not obscured by the fog.

Affect Camera – Determines whether the fog is visible to camera rays.

Affect GI – Determines whether the fog affects the GI rays.

Affect Reflections – Determines whether the fog is rendered in reflections.

Affect Refractions – Determines whether the fog is rendered in refractions.

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