2015 Autodesk

Autodesk VREDTM

New Light and shadow baking in 2016 release

Samarth Gupta

2015 Autodesk

Bake Light + shadowOrange view environmentMedium quality

Scene -> Bake shadows and Light select Light and Shadows

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Indirect IlluminationColor bleeding ONOpen GL only

Scene -> Bake shadows and Light enable Indirect illumination

2015 Autodesk

Bake Light + shadowOrange view environmentMedium quality

Mirror reflects the HDR and not the actual scene

The shadows and light baked are based on the particular env ONLY

The shadow quality depends on the tessellation quality as the info is stored in each vertex

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Pre comp + IBL render mode256 samplesLight from the IBL only

Mirror reflects the actual scene

The shadows and light info are based on real scene and are sharp as each pixel in scene is rendered

2015 Autodesk

The previous 2 slides clearly illustrates the difference between the Raytraced scene vs the Open GL scene with the advanced functionalities added in the 2016 version. The baked shadows in the Open GL mode are based on a particular environment and the calculation has to be redone everytime the environment changes. Also the shadow quality depends on the tessellation quality of the surfaces in the scene as the information gets stored in the vertex. With the new light baking functionalities in VRED 2016 , the gap between the open GL and RT based visualisations has surely been reduced & counteracted by the influence of the other.

Conclusion