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This page introduces the Atmospheric and Environment effects for V-Ray for 3ds Max.


Overview

The Atmospheric and Environment effects in V-Ray simulate fog, atmospheric haze and participating media for a number of image effects. They also include VRayToon, a cartoon-styled non-photorealistic effect that enables toon shading as a render effect throughout the scene.

These effects are available under the Atmosphere rollout on the Effects dialog (Rendering menu > Effects).

V-Ray follows 3ds Max’s conventions for right-click actions on parameter spinners. Right-clicking a parameter spinner sets its value to the minimum allowed. Ctrl + right-click resets the value to its default. Right-clicking a parameter value opens a dropdown menu with an option to reset it to the default.

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Atmospheric Effects

Environment Fog Simulates participating media like fog, atmospheric dust.

Aerial Perspective Simulates the effect of viewing distant objects through the Earth's atmosphere.

Sphere Fade Gizmo Extracts and renders small parts of the scene by putting them in an atmospheric gizmo.



Volumetric Effect

Volumetric Grid Creates a volumetric effect that works with grid-based cache formats.





Toon Render Effect

VRayToon An atmospheric plugin that produces cartoon-style outlines on specific objects in the scene.




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