From the course: V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Essential Training
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Lighting analysis
From the course: V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Essential Training
Lighting analysis
- [Instructor] For visualization professionals who sometimes find themselves working more on the technical as opposed to artistic side of a project, Chaos Group have added lighting analysis tools to V-Ray that can help us both measure and analyze light levels in a scene, including the ability to create false color heat maps and data overlays in order to show luminance or illuminance data values. To perform its lighting analysis, V-Ray actually uses two separate components. These being the V-Ray light meter helper object and the V-Ray lighting analysis render element. Now, of course, the light meter helper has been in V-Ray since version two, but has been updated for better precision in recent years. Whereas the lighting analysis was new to V-Ray Next. The light meter helper, if we just add one to the scene by coming to the helpers and V-Ray sections in the command panel, and then engaging both the create mode and auto grid…
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