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Rendering light groups - 3ds Max Tutorial
From the course: Product and Architectural Visualization Techniques
Rendering light groups
- [Instructor] Another way to art direct renderings in post-production is with light groups. Some advanced renderers automate the process of rendering different groups of lights as separate files. When these light group renderings are combined in post-processing, the final result is exactly the same as if the lights had all been rendered together in a single pass. This opens up many creative possibilities, streamlines revisions, and also makes the process of architectural lighting studies that much easier. There's no need to render many different versions of a scene with different lighting schemes. We can render all of the lights at once and instantly enable or disable groups of lights in post. The basic process is to place individual lights in groups and render the groups to separate render passes. This is handled with AOVs, arbitrary output variables, which are render passes that can carry many different types of information. Once the light groups have been rendered out as separate…
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