{LaB} Chaos Group | Creators of V-Ray - 3D Rendering Software Tuts+ Design & Illustration Tutorials ARCH-student.com | International architecture students community Vali Architects | Instant Scripts | SketchUp plugins V-Ray Render Optimization | Akin Bilgic Intro This tutorial attempts to cover the process of optimizing your V-Ray render settings to get the best possible render quality and fastest render time for a given scene. There's often a lot of confusion surrounding V-Ray's sampling methods and what 'ideal' settings are. Many times you'll see artists adopt the 'Universal V-Ray Settings' of having the Image Sampler (Anti-Aliasing, or AA) Max Subdivs value set very high (like 50 or 100), and then simply lowering the noise threshold value until the render becomes clean enough - thinking that it's the best / fastest that V-Ray can do. But with a bit of understanding of how V-Ray works under the hood, you can achieve a higher quality result WITH faster render times - in some extreme cases ranging between 3x faster to 13x faster than the universal settings. We'll first cover some of the underlying concepts behind how ray tracing and V-Ray's sampling works. Raytracing 101 Figure 01 So to recap the important terms: Figure 02 Figure 03 Figure 04
Archivitamins | RESOURCES FOR ARCHITECTS GOBOTREE Top 10 Websites for Learning Realistic Landscape Architecture Rendering Tips and Tricks - Land8 When I started teaching the University of Maryland's landscape architecture digital drafting and mapping course, I scoured the web for the best resources and tutorials for my students. Since digital renderings have now become standard practice in landscape architecture, it's important that students and professionals stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest time-saving tips and tricks. Below, I've curated a list of top ten websites that I've recommended to students over the years as the best web resources for realistic renderings. 10. Phong With only a few tutorials, Phong makes our list because of the unique method he uses to create cut outs. 9. Archivitimins' main attraction is their cut outs available on their Facebook page, but the tutorials on their website also cover graphic design, modeling and Adobe, putting them in the number 9 spot on our list. 8. With only a handful of ruby scripts to his name, Chuck Vali has amassed some of the most impressive rubys that we have seen. 7.
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