Rendering lecture

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Rendering.

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After completing this lecture, you'll be able to understand rendering and fusion,

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describe the workflow for rendering and identify rendering settings and options.

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First, we need to start by understanding what is a render

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a render is an image or animation with photorealistic qualities.

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This will vary greatly from what we see in the design workspace.

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While we're creating our designs,

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rendered images use more advanced lighting and materials that are displayed.

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While creating your design

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renders can be static images or turntable animations

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and renders are used for design and product visualization.

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So how are renders created

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rendering an image in fusion? 360 can be done in real time using the in canvas render.

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You can use a renderer using local resources in

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the background or it can be computed on the cloud

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rendering.

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An image is a process of ray tracing which calculates the

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light reflections and shadows in each pixel of that image.

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Higher quality renderings, calculate each pixel over more iterations.

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And while in general allowing a render to calculate

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for longer will produce a higher quality image,

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there will be a point of diminishing returns.

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So next we need to talk about the rendering workflow.

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Once you're in the render workspace,

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you begin by applying or adjusting appearances to

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each body or component in your design.

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Next, you'll set up the scene environment camera and ground plane.

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This controls things like the direction the light's coming from.

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Whether or not we see an environment and whether or not the

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ground plane has reflections or even if it's displayed at all.

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If you need to add decals,

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you can use the decal option to apply images directly on top of your design.

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Next, if you need to adjust textures for things like wood grain or composites,

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you can use the texture map.

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This allows you to adjust the way the texture is projected onto the model

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and you can also manipulate its position.

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This is helpful if there are key aspects of things like

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wood grain that you want to display in a certain area.

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Next step is to modify the position of your model inside of the canvas area.

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Once you have it at a good orientation, it's also helpful to create named views.

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So you can always go back to that orientation.

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Last,

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we wanna make sure that we begin the render process by doing a test render using

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in canvas rendering before moving to a final locally or on the cloud rendered image.

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The in canvas render again will use ray tracing

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that happens in real time on the screen.

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It's great to do a final check for things like material settings,

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the render locally or on the cloud will

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help because this happens in the background and

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allows you to create more render setups and

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calculate multiple renders at the same time,

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post render options.

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After a render image has been created,

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you can download the image post process the

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image or create a render turntable animation,

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local rendering.

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And most cloud rendering is free but turntable rendering

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and animations generally use flex tokens or cloud credits.

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Keep in mind that these vary based on the settings.

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For example, the number of frames and the image size and quality

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images can be downloaded with or without the background image.

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So if you need to create a render,

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you can download it with the background image

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as well as one with a transparent background.

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This can be helpful when repurposing images and marketing displays and websites.

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So in conclusion,

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rendered images are used to visualize a design in a more realistic way

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rendered images use high-quality appearances, lighting and backgrounds,

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rendered images can be processed locally or in the cloud as a background task,

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rendered images can be post process download or

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rendered as turntable animations.