Overview
The globally unique progressive renderer features outstanding product characteristics, such as global illumination, 3D motion blur and depth of field amongst many more. VRED Essentials provides a database with a wide range of photorealistic materials. Together with the shader settings, it is easy to achieve complex surface structures. VRED Essentials ensures to display physically correct reflections, refractions and lighting situations that can be set up and evaluated interactively throughout the whole working process.
Intuitive user interface
Material database, HDR features and file import
As the material database, the shader library in VRED Essentials is characterized by its easy handling. All textures and surfaces are clearly defined by describing parameters. The possibility of changing all settings and preferences at any time, allows a high quality and very fast demonstration of details like car paintings and brushed metals in the raytracing mode. To simulate correct lighting settings HDR-Images can be uploaded and used as information carrier regarding surrounding and illumination. This way information about surrounding and illumination can be assigned to the scene physically correct. Additional light sources can be added and modified in real time independently. HDR-images can be combined with a backplate to expose objects even more realistically. The software is able to work with many different polygonal file types (e.g. FBX, Maya and Rhino). For an additional charge, it is possible to import other formats including IGES and STEP.
Animation features
With VRED Essentials a wide range of CGI image productions can be realized. An outstanding set of animation functionalities are delivered with the two modules, the CurveEditor and the ClipMaker. While an unlimited list of animations per object can be created and stored in Blocks in the CurveEditor, these Blocks can be freely arranged in the ClipMaker to refine the timing and length of each chapter in the clip.
A whole set of clips can be created in each file and directly rendered as render passes, to be composed in post effects tools. Not only 8 bit, but up to 32 bit file formats as EXR or HDR can be created to have a wide color range for postproduction.
Camera module
VRED Essentials brings a state of the art camera module, which helps users to accurately adopt real footage camera settings to the 3D environment within the application. Starting with settings for focal length, sensor height and width, fstops and shutter time can individually be set for each camera. Predefined viewpoints can be accessed from any camera and even be stored to be load into another scene. These camera attributes are being taken fully into account for generating the resulting image. Motion blur and depth of field are fully supported in VRED Essentials.
Texture module
VRED Essentials comes up with a completely reworked texture editing module.
Textures can be placed and repositioned fully interactive within seconds. The user has full control and direct feedback over texture placement. Without having studies about UV sets and UV unwrapping, nearly any surface can be perfectly textured with this texture approach.
VRED Essentials is a bundle of tools that let artist become artistic again.
Get the essence out of VRED.