Rendering

Jost Keller aka jakerupert

Thanks to all the Webrenderers

Rendering Times

Fuchur at Patchworks discusses speeding up renderings.

White Render Look

Method 1 - Basic Ambiance / Ambience Occlusion

The first method is just an AO render. This method only works when there are no textures on the model.

(source)

• Choreography
  • Property: Global Ambient Type = Global Color
    • Property: Ambiance Color = White (255, 255, 255)
    • Property: Ambiance Intensity = 80%
    • Property: Ambiance Occlusion = 80%
  • Lights - disable all but the rim light; position it, and make it white
  • Camera
    • Property: Background = White (255, 255, 255)
    • Render Options
      • Property: Ambient Occlusion = ON
        • Property: Occlusion Sampling = 20% (up to 70% for less noise)
      • Property: Multi-Pass = On
        • Property: Passes = 4 (or 16 for better)

Method 2 - AO plus Rotoscope

The second method builds on the AO method above by adding a rotoscope. The benefit of this method is that it works even if you have already textured your model. The differences are highlighted in bold below. (source)

• Choreography
  • Property: Global Ambient Type = Global Color (Note: does not need to be set to an image. However, there are many other neat effects possible by using Image Based Lighting.)
    • Property: Ambiance Color = White (255, 255, 255)
    • Property: Ambiance Intensity = 80%
    • Property: Ambiance Occlusion = 80%
  • Lights - disable all but the rim light; position it, and make it white
  • Camera
    • Rotoscopes
      • White image rotoscope = a completely white image - IMPORTANT: This is on the Camera, not the Choreography
    • Property: Background = White (255, 255, 255)
    • Render Options
      • Property: Ambient Occlusion = ON
        • Property: Occlusion Sampling = 20% (up to 70% for less noise)
      • Property: Multi-Pass = On
        • Property: Passes = 4 (or 16 for better)
  • Object to display as white
    • Options
      • Property: Front Projection Target = ON

Sample Project