I have been playing with custom Renderworks in Vectorworks 2011, and I really like it. The new Renderworks is very subtle, and you have a lot of control over the rendering quality, texture quality, and lighting quality. Wouldn’t it be great to understand how to how to edit the Custom…
I have a room created by a friend of mine, Bill. He has made all the textures, image props and backgrounds. Bill and I have been talking about the Vectorworks rendering. Very often, we use Custom Renderworks to see the scene. Custom Renderworks is very quick, and it has several…
I think that Rendering is one of the fun parts of VectorWorks, You can see you buildings coming to life. Getting the lighting right and setting the correct rendering can take you some time.
The Renderworks background allows you to create something behind your model to make it look better. In the views of the bus stop, you will have noticed the background was a plain white. That does not help your clients to visualize the project.
Lines lights can be used to replicate tube lighting and neon lighting. Beware, these line lights take ages to render. There is no tool to use. You draw a shape you want and use a command to convert the shape to a line light.
Spot lights are directional lights that point at a particular location, and they have a controllable beam and spread. Spot lights are best placed in plan and then checked in elevation.
A point light is like a bare light bulb. The light goes out in all directions.
Directional Light. The directional light is like a sun, it’s an outside light. The directional light is the type of light that is placed when you use the Set Sun Position from the View Menu.
Environment Lighting. Environment lighting is the ability to place a kind of background to your model. Environment lighting uses something called HDRI (High Dynamic Range Image) and uses the light in the HDRI image to calculate the light. the effects can be very nice, but very slow.
Layer Lighting Options. The Layer Lighting Options control the ambient lighting is the lighting all around, it has no direction and therefore casts no shadows. The real world equivalent is the southern sky, also know as the sky dome.