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Saving time with Rhino's render-time effects

Saving time with Rhino's render-time effects

From the course: Rhino and V-Ray: Rendering

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Saving time with Rhino's render-time effects

While V-ray is the focus of the entire course, Rhino still has some very nice features we can use. The advantage of what I call a render time effect is greater speed and it doesn't require you to make permanent changes to the geometry. Let's take a look at three of these. They're all located on the Rhino render tools toolbar and they're located kind of here in the middle. Let's just take it in order. We'll start off with apply edge softening, and I'm going to zoom in on this bird house here. We'll just kind of inspect it. Get a good idea of the before situation. So notice there's no filets anywhere. It's just sharp edges on all the geometry. So to filet that it would take quite a while. You'd have to do a little pre-planning and make sure the filet would wrap around every single corner and maybe experiment a bit. But, if you just want to do a quick render and have it look like you took all that time, then we can use this edge softening tool. So, I click on the tool button, select the…

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