If you have tried using Fog in your Environments you have likely been frustrated with the fact that the visible environment appears crystal clear through the fog instead of being properly obscured by the fog. This problem pretty much rules out getting…
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I've been meaning to write this blog for some time now, and I finally find myself with two days left in the year, and a house full of family (twenty-one people - "Oh My" indeed!). Sounds like the perfect excuse to hide away…
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What is an Environment?
An environment is simply your surroundings; if you look around the space where you are sitting, everything that you see is your current environment. Getting up and moving…
Volume lighting depending on the number of lights and the complexity of the scene, can be very compute intensive and require longer render times. To help you avoid some frustration when working with volume effects, I am writing this…
Last year we made the decision to license our rendering engine from Luxology and our users now have some of the best minds in computer graphics and visualization diligently working on proving them with one of the…
Rendering depth of field effects can be very expensive in terms of render time. To get decent Depth of Field (DOF) results, you will need to set your antialiasing (AA) samples to at least 64 and to get very good results you will need to set the AA samples…
It seems maybe it might be a good time to start blogging the "Luxology Rendering Engine Failed" message and one of its likely causes. After much testing and looking at countless test cases submitted by so many of you, I have come to the realization…