Autodesk VRED Hands-On

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Material: Shadow MaterialUse and assign materials.The Shadow Material is a special material for ground surfaces. It is

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Create a Unicolor Paint Material for the car’s chassis. • Right-click in the Materials tab and select Create Material

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Create a Glass Material for the car’s headlight glasses.• Right-click in the Materials tab and select Create Material

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Material: Chrome & brushed metalCreate a Chrome Material for the car’s chrome parts.• Right-click in the Materials

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Material: Brushed metal Create a BrushedMetalMaterial for the rims.• Right-click in Materials tab and select Create &g

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Material: Tire MaterialCreate a Tire Material for the car’s tires.• Right-click in the Materials tab and select Create

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Material: Carbon MaterialCreate a Carbon Material for the car’s back door.• Right-click in the Materials tab and selec

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Ambient OcclusionPrecalculated Ambient Occlusion is a Render mode. In raytracing mode, ambient occlusion settings take

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Ambient OcclusionThe surface normals define the direction at which surface is pointing. To see the surface directio

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Material: Intermediary resultThis is how your picture should look now:

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015General informationTo be able to follow the instructions of this manual, you need the files of the VRED Tutorial. Downlo

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Creating environmentsHDR images can be used as spherical environments. They surround all objects of the scene. An HDR i

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Projected texturesCreate projected textures.Create a Reflective Plastic Material for the numberplate.• Right-click in t

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Material switchesCreate material switches.A Switch Material is a material node that enables the assignment of different

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Environment Material switchCreate environment material switches.An Environment Switch Material is a material node that

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Object animationsPosition the pivot and create object animations.Animations can be created in the Curve Editor module.

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Camera animationsCamera animations can also be created using the CurveEditor module.• Select the Microracer group node

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015RenderingVRED supports two different rendering modes: OpenGL rendering and raytraced rendering-. • Switching between b

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Raytracing renderingCreating area lights in raytracing rendering• In the Material Editor, switch to the default enviro

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Raytracing renderingDirect light sources can be converted to area light sources.• Activate Downscale and Raytracing in

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Global illuminationRaytracing rendering mode supports full global illumination. When you activate this function, more t

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Using VRED: InterfaceThis chapter provides general information regarding interface, navigation, selection, manipulating

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Interface: IconstabThe Icons tab provides shortcuts to access commonly used features, such as the render options or the

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Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Optimize sceneAutodesk® VRED is an interactive 3D visualization software. Before starting to prepare a VRED render file,

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Now execute the Material Editor optimization• This step is only necessary if you chose to open the IGES files. The micr

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Rearranging the ScenegraphTo obtain a better overview of the objects in the scene, we recommend that you prepare and re

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Creating geometry switchesA geometry switch node offers the possibility of making one of a series of objects visibl

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Duplicate & mirrorAfter rearranging the Scenegraph, it becomes apparent that some parts are only partially modeled.

Autodesk VRED Professional 2015Surface direction and normalsThe surface normals define the direction, a surface is pointing. To see the surface directi