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Fast spherical lights

Posted on September 28, 2012 by sitexgraphics

A spherical light source can provide more realistic illumination than a traditional point light because it gives the light an actual size and shape.  The usual way to render a sphere light is to use an area light shader with … Continue reading →

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Adding a background plate to a Massive crowd rendering

Posted on July 9, 2012 by sitexgraphics

A user recently asked how to render a preview image with Air from Massive that included a background plate.   The Massive camera node includes an option to specify a background image, but that setting is not exported to rib for … Continue reading →

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Adding an occlusion pass

Posted on December 21, 2010 by sitexgraphics

Air’s surface shaders provide a consistent set of output variables for common rendering passes such as diffuse, specular, reflection, and per-light channels.  Any or all of these values can be saved during a single invocation of the renderer, either to … Continue reading →

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