Rendering and Lighting Tips. Keep the number of lights you use to a minimum. The more lights you add, the longer each rendering will take. Do not add every light that would be in the scene in real life. Rendering does not replicate real life, it is your interpretation of it….
Start Batch Render Job. When you have all your batch render jobs, you can set Vectorworks to export them all.
Batch Render. This is the trick to make sure you do not tie up your computer when you want to be using it. After you have assigned the light, cameras, models and textures, and you have used the Render Bitmap tool to check everything, you can set up batch render jobs…
Render Bitmap tool. Adding area lights and line lights makes rendering very slow. If you add bluriness to a texture, it will make the rendering take longer as well. This has the effect of locking up your computer for 10 or 20 minutes at a time. This is not a great…
HDRI Backgrounds. Vectorworks comes with several built-in HDRI backgrounds, built-in. To use one of these as a background, you have to use it as an environment light first, this imports the background into your file, then you can use it as a Renderworks Background.
Renderworks Background. The Renderworks Background allows you to create something behind your model to make it look better.
Point Light. A point light is like a bare light bulb. The light radiates out in all directions.
Artistic Renderworks has several options for creating artistic styles like pencil sketch and cartoon.
Custom Renderworks. This rendering method offers a lot of flexibility. There are several options you can choose from, so you can make Custom Renderworks go from Fast Renderworks to Final Quality, and some special options as well. This is now my rendering method of choice.
Final Quality Renderworks. This is one of the highest quality renderings you can get. You get great quality, but there are no options to play with.