Auto Exposure – When enabled, automatically calculates an appropriate exposure value for the render. This option requires Light Cache in Single frame mode. This can be set in the GI tab of the Render Settings. Disabled – Auto Exposure is not applied. Center-weighted Average – Calculates the exposure by evaluating the light in the center of the frame and its surroundings, ignoring the corners. Histogram – Calculates a histogram of the image, which allows very bright or very dark areas of the scene to be excluded from the exposure calculations, creating a more balanced result. Auto White Balance – Automatically determines a suitable white balance value for the image. This option requires Light Cache in Single frame mode. This can be set in the GI tab of the Render Settings. Auto white balance and Auto exposure options do not take into account pixels with zero or negative Alpha value. For example the brightness of directly visible environment or a dome light with disabled Affect alpha, or the lighting intensity over matte objects are not directly included in the automated calculations, only their contributions over other visible items in the scene will matter. |
Auto Corrections Mode – Specifies to which camera and/or views to apply the automatic exposure and white balance setting. This option is available only if Auto Exposure/Auto white balance are enabled. All cameras – Applies Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance to all cameras, regardless of their local exposure settings. Cameras without exposure only – Applies Auto Exposure and Auto White Balance only to cameras with no local exposure settings. Auto Exposure and Auto White balance are not calculated when performing an IPR render, only when a production render is started. |
Camera Type – Types of cameras available in V-Ray. You may set your scene camera to be overridden by selecting one of the following: Standard – Allows for the current scene camera to be used (usually a pinhole camera). Spherical – A camera with a spherically shaped lens. Cylindrical (point) – This camera casts all rays from the center of a cylinder. In the vertical direction, the camera acts as a pinhole camera, and in the horizontal direction, the camera acts as a spherical camera. Cylindrical (ortho) – This camera casts all rays from the center of a cylinder. In the vertical direction, the camera acts as an orthographic view, and in the horizontal direction, the camera acts as a spherical camera. Box – Six standard cameras placed on the sides of a box. This type of camera is excellent for generation of environment maps for cube mapping and generates a vertical cross format image. Fish Eye – This special type of camera captures the scene as if it is a pinhole camera pointed at a 100% reflective sphere that reflects the scene back into the camera's shutter, as with using a light probe in HDRI photography. You can use the Dist and FOV settings to control which part of the sphere is captured by the camera. Note that the virtual reflective sphere has always a radius of 1.0. Warped Spherical (old-style) – A spherical camera with slightly different mapping formula than the Spherical camera. Orthogonal – An orthographic camera enabling flat, non-perspective views. Pinhole – Overrides the scene camera to force it to be a pinhole camera. Spherical Panorama – Spherical camera with independent horizontal and vertical FOV selection that is useful for generating lat-long images for spherical VR use. Cube6x1 – A variant of the Box camera with the cube sides arranged in a single row. Unlike the Box camera's output, Cube6x1 does not produce an empty space in the output image and is quite useful in generating cubic VR output. Height – Specifies the height of a Cylindrical (ortho) camera. This setting is available only when the Camera type is set to Cylindrical (ortho). Auto-fit – Controls the auto-fit option of the Fish Eye camera. When enabled, V-Ray calculates the Distance value automatically so that the rendered image fits horizontally with the image's dimensions. Curve – Controls the degree of warping for a Fish Eye camera. A value of 1.0 corresponds to a real world fish-eye camera. Lower values increase warping, while higher values reduce warping. Technically, this value controls the angle at which rays are reflected by the virtual sphere of the camera. Override FOV – Overrides Cinema 4D's camera FOV (field-of-view) angle. Some V-Ray camera types can take FOV ranges from 0 to 360 degrees, whereas the cameras in Cinema 4D are limited to 180 degrees. Enable Depth-of-field –Toggles on or off additional parameters to control depth of field. See the Depth of Filed section below. Enable Motion Blur – Toggles on or off additional parameters to control motion blur. See the Motion Blur section below. Geometry Samples – Determines the number of geometry segments used to approximate motion blur. Objects are assumed to move linearly between geometry samples. For objects rotating at high speed, increase this parameter to get correct motion blur. Note that higher values increase memory consumption since more geometry copies are kept in memory. |