Lecture 10 - Rendering

Lecture today covered the radiosity and light studio and mental ray renders.

I ran through some example tutorials on The VizDepot on radiosity and mental ray.

I noted the length of time renders can take and the need to test setting before embarking on a full render.

I pointed out that a radiosity solution is calculated before a render is done. In the example file a radiosity solution took 43 minutes and the render on top of it took anoth 23 seconds!

The process of 'baking' textures was introduced. With baked textures the lighting solution can be exported to an interative power point 3D model...

Also mentioned was the use of Light Studio materials - for the first time in 15 years, relatively easy - notes on the rendering tutorial on architecture-onlineteaching