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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

Adaptive Shadow Sampling and 8.0

Christopher Tyler Apr, 9th 2015 0 Comments
Adaptive Shadow Sampling allows the renderer to save time by adaptively lowering render quality parameters in dim shadow areas. This can save quite a bit of time in some scene, but can also introduce artifacts if set too high. This tutorial discusses how the gamma function in 8.0 can necessitate different values as compared to 7.x
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by Chris Tyler: Fundamentals | Modeling
Texturing | 7.5 Rendering
UV Mapping | Misc
8.0 Specific

New 8.0 Intensity Option in the Lighting tab

Christopher Tyler Apr, 4th 2015 3 Comments
This new option allows the Lightdome to affect the scene in one of two ways; one is solely through amplification of diffuse illumination (raydiosity) or through source pixel brightness which also affects reflections. This quick tutorial shows specifically what this very useful function does.
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