Honki's helpful thread of uselessness.

[Honki]

Right.

Looks crappy so far, so we'll change some render settings and add some GI.

Go into the render settings > Renderer, and open the Environment rollout.

Enable the GI Environment Skylight Over-ride button.
Set the colour to white for now, and change the intensity to a mid level. I'll use 0.6

[Honki]

And we need to enable Global Illumination.
This will let the light bounce around, and basically lighten up our scene.

Make sure you uncheck Default Lights and Hidden Lights.

[Honki]

Let's do another test render.

You can see the blue colour bleeding on the floor.
This is because the secondary bounces are too strong.

[Honki]

Easy fix...

[Honki]

And that should be us ready to go.

First, increase the dimensions of the render before adding GI samples etc, and render out a test.

[Honki]

All looks good.

Now we just increase the samples of our GI & AA (Antialiasing) to give ourselves a good quality render.

[Honki]

Render it out, and you should have yourself a good picture.

[Honki]

And That's IT!!
Save your scene, and you can use it as a base for many different studio renders.
Obviously the settings, colours, backdrop etc. will change based on what you want to achieve.

Hope you find it useful.

[neolith]

Just dropped in to say you did a really fine job and to increase my postcount.Oh,and i dont have any sisters

[Honki]

Originally Posted by neolith

i dont have any sisters

Tell your mother to call me and I'll soon fix that problem

[Gofthick]

The studio render tutorial was very helpful, and I can't wait to see your next...umm... one? Or should I say two.

[Jynks]

@Honki

Great idea... i have always found you to be helpful and a mine of information.. If I may suggest though... this thread is going to get huge if you keep adding to it like that first tutorial.

May i suggest making a new tutorial thread for each tutorial and then having a "index" list in this thread. Mabey with a nice title gfx like your last post announcing the next tutorial. Then by editing the first post of this thread you can add all the tutorial links and have a nice neat thread with all the information... rather than a single thread 30 pages long with comments scattered though it and mabey in teh future a user having to page though 20 pages to find a tutorial "buried" inside the thread...

Just a though... either way please continue

[Honki]

Sure.

Good idea.

YOU my friend, are a mine of information.

[chubu]

10x honky, the studio toturial is great,
altough i know another one here:
http://cg-india.com/Tutorials/V-Ray/...ial_SL_01.html

I wandring: what do you think of it? is yours better? and if so, why?

[Honki]

That ones a good one too Chubu.

In fact, I use that set up myself sometimes.

There is no right or wrong way to set up a scene. I just put it together as I have had several requests via PM and email on how to do it.

I normally would just direct them to the link you just posted, but I thought I might as well put one together and keep it in the realm of threedy.