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07-848 2005

V-Ray for Nuke

Render Elements

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Advanced Light Path Expressions

Now that we've looked at how LPEs work and know the basics, let's look at some advanced concepts and more ways to use LPEs.

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Alpha

The Alpha channel is a grayscale image that stores the transparency of objects in the scene.

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Atmospheric Effects

This page provides details about the Atmospheric Effects Render Element and how it is used in compositing.

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Background

The Background Render Element includes just the background as set in the scene, with the rest of the image rendered as black.

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Beauty

This page gives some basic details about the Beauty render element and how it may be re-assembled in a composite using its component elements.

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Beauty Render Elements

This page gives an overview of the Beauty Render Elements and explains how they are used as layers to composite together.

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Bump Normals

This page provides information on the Bump Normals Render Element which creates a normal-style image from the camera view from bumps and normals in the scene.

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Caustics Render Element

This page provides details about the Caustics Render Element and how it is used in compositing.

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Coverage

This page gives some basic details about the Coverage Render Element and how it is used in compositing.

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Cryptomatte

Cryptomatte is a method developed by Psyop for efficiently encoding accurate mattes. It uses typically three to five render elements (which are automatically generated) with multichannel OpenEXR files, which removes the hassle of creating dozens, or hundreds, of Multi Mattes. Using the Cryptomatte plugin for Nuke or...

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Diffuse

This page describes the Diffuse Render Element and how it is used to have more control of a final composited image.

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ExtraTex

This page provides information on the ExtraTex render element.

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Geometry Render Elements

Geometry Render Elements rely on geometry to generate the render element. This page gives an overview of the Geometry render elements that may be generated through V-Ray and how they are used in compositing.

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GI

This page gives an overview of the GI (Global Illumination) render element and explains how it is used in compositing.

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GI Raw

This page gives an overview of the GI Raw render element and how it may be used in compositing.

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Global Illumination Render Elements

This page gives an overview of the two global illumination render elements that may be created through V-Ray and how they are used in compositing.

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Introduction to Light Path Expressions

If you are not familiar with using Light Path Expressions (LPEs), this page is a good place to start. The sections below will try to explain what LPEs are, how they work and what are the possible use cases.

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Light Path Expressions

This page provides information about Light Path Expressions.

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Light Raw

This page provides information on the Light Raw Render Element.

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Light Raw Total

This page gives some basic details about the Light Raw Total Render Element and explains how it is used in compositing.

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Light Select

The Light Select Render Element represents the lighting contribution from one or more user-selected lights in the scene. Each Light Select channel can output the selected lights' raw, diffuse, or specular contributions to the illumination, or the overall (normal) light contribution. When multiple lights are selected...

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Light Total

The Light Total Render Element stores all direct and indirect lighting in the scene.

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Lighting

The Lighting Render Element stores direct lighting and diffuse color information.

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Lighting Render Elements

This page gives an overview of the Render Elements available in V-Ray that contain lighting information.

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List of Supported Render Elements

This page provides a list of the render elements supported in V-Ray for Nuke.

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Matte Render Elements

A matte render element is an aid for selection masks for the compositing process. The term matte refers to a technique for layering two or more images where parts of each image are masked or blocked from the final composite.

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Matte Shadow

This page gives an overview of the Matte Shadow Render Element and how it may be used in compositing.

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Multi Matte

This page provides information on the Multi Matte Render Element which creates red, green, and blue selection masks based on an object's Object ID or Material ID.

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Normals

This page provides information on the Normals Render Element which creates a normals image from surface normals in the scene.

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Object ID

This page provides information on the Object ID Render Element which isolates individual objects with colors or integer values for compositing purposes.

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Reflection

This page gives an overview of the Reflection Render Element and explains how it is used.

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Reflection Filter

This page gives an overview of the Reflection Filter Render Element and explains how it is used.

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Reflection Glossiness

This page gives some basic details about the Reflection Glossiness render element and how it is used in compositing.

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Reflection Highlight Glossiness

This page gives some basic details about the Reflection Highlight Glossiness render element and how it is used in compositing.

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Reflection Raw

This page gives some basic details about the Reflection Raw render element and how it is used in compositing.

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Reflection Render Elements

This page gives an overview of the Reflection Render Elements and explains how they are used for compositing.

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Refraction

This page gives some basic details about the Refraction Render Element and how it is used in compositing.

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Refraction Filter

This page gives some basic details about the Refraction Filter Render Element and how it is used in compositing.

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Refraction Glossiness

This page gives some basic details about the Refraction Glossiness render element and how it is used in compositing.

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Refraction Raw

This page gives some basic details about the Refraction Raw Render Element and how it is used in compositing.

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Refraction Render Elements

This page gives an overview of the refraction render elements that may be output through V-Ray and how they are used in compositing.

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Render ID

The Render ID Render Element creates selection masks based on the node handle of each object or the V-Ray assigned render ID. In Nuke, each object is internally assigned a unique node handle when the object is created. When V-Ray is rendering, each object is assigned a render ID. The intended use for the Render ID c...

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Sample Rate

The Sample Rate Render Element displays the work being done by the image sampler as a red, green, and blue image.

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Self Illum

The Self Illumination Render Element stores the illumination of any self-illuminated materials in the scene.

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Shadow

This page gives some basic details about the Shadow Render Element and how it is used in compositing.

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Shadow Raw

This page gives some basic details about the Shadow Raw render element and explains how it is used.

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Shadow Render Elements

This page gives an overview of V-Ray's Shadow Render Elements and how they are used in compositing.

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Specular

This page gives an overview of the Specular Render Element and explains how it is used.

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SSS

The Subsurface Scattering Render Element stores subsurface information calculated from VRayFastSSS2 materials.

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Utility Render Elements

This page gives an overview of V-Ray's utility render elements and how they are used. Utility elements have a wide variety of uses both inside and outside of the compositing process.

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V-Ray Denoiser Render Element | Denoiser

This page provides information on the Denoiser Render Element

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Velocity

The Velocity Render Element is a color or grayscale image that stores velocity information about objects that have moved between the current frame and the next frame.

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VRayRenderElement

The VRayRenderElement node allows the user to add different render elements to the render output that can be later used for compositing. To use the VRayRenderElement node, connect it to the Scene node and pick the render element you want from the drop down menu.

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ZDepth

The ZDepth Render Element is a grayscale image that renders each pixel based on its distance from the camera in the view.

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