This page gives an overview of the Beauty Render Elements and explains how they are used as layers to composite together.


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Overview


The Beauty Render Elements are the primary render elements that form V-Ray's pre-composited final render Beauty. When rendering a scene, the image that is output is called the Beauty render. This render is comprised of many elements such as diffuse color, shadows, lighting, and reflections that are composited together to form that final Beauty look. All these component elements may be broken out into separate render elements which can be used to control different aspects of the final image during compositing.

With this workflow, sometimes called "Back to Beauty" Compositing, many components in the render – from its lighting, reflections, and refractions, to its shadows and Global Illumination – can be easily adjusted. As a result, the Beauty render can be fine-tuned without the need to re-render the scene, thus saving time and increasing artistic options.

More information on the process of Back to Beauty Compositing may be found on the Beauty Render Element page.

 

 

Render Element Examples


The following are examples of render elements frequently used in Back to Beauty Compositing. The scene includes geometry in front of and interacting with a live action plate.

 

 


Beauty

 


Alpha

 


Diffuse

 

 

 


Specular

 


GI

 


GI Raw

 

 

 


Lighting

 


Light Select

 


Light Raw

 

 

 


Light Total

 


Light Raw Total

 


Reflection

 

 

 


Reflection Raw

 


Reflection Filter

 


Reflection Glossiness

 

 

 


Reflection Highlight Glossiness

 


Refraction

 


Refraction Raw

 

 

 


Refraction Filter

 


Refraction Glossiness

 


Shadow

 

 

 


Shadow Raw

 


Matte Shadow

 


Atmospheric Effects

 

 

 


Background

 


Caustics

 


Self Illum

 

 

 


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