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The Self Illumination Render Element stores the illumination of any self-illuminated materials in the scene.

 

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Overview

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The Self Illumination Render Element isolates any objects with Self-Illumination enabled in their V-Ray Material. This render element is useful for brightening or color-correcting self-illuminated materials in the final composite.

For example, the material VRayMtl has a parameter for self-illumination. If this parameter is set to a non-black color value, this render element will show the results of the self-illumination.

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UI Path: ||Toolbar|| > V-Ray Menu icon > Render > VRayRenderElement > Type: Self Illum


Properties

The Self Illum render element has no controllable properties.

 

 

Common uses

The Self Illumination Render Element is useful for changing the appearance of self-illuminated surfaces after rendering in compositing or image editing software. Below are two examples of its use.

 

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Self Illumination Render Element

 

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Original Beauty Composite with no Self Illumination Render Element

 

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Original Beauty Composite with Self Illumination Render Element with no glow added

 

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Self Illumination Render Element with added glow

 

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Tinted Self Illumination Render Element with added glow

 

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Self Illumination with added glow

 

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Color of self-illuminated surface changed in composite

 

 

 

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Notes

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  • This element contains only the light geometry itself, not the light emitted from it. Lighting information is contained in the Lighting Render Elements.