Set up rendering job

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After completing this lesson, you will be able to: switch to the Inventor Studio environment, create a camera for Rendering,

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modify Rendering settings and generate a rendered image.

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Even though you can generate compelling images just by using the image-based lighting in the View Style,

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there's another level that can be achieved inside of Inventor, that is creating an actual rendering.

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To access the Inventor Studio and the rendering tools, go to the "Environments" tab and start "Inventor Studio."

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This will open up a separate environment inside of Inventor.

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Immediately the image--based lighting will reengage.

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It might appear that we were just redoing what we were able to do using "View Style."

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But the rendering tools inside of "Inventor Studio" give us a great deal more control and allow us to go beyond just image-based lighting.

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First, let's establish a "Camera."

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What a "Camera" does is allows us to store a point of view that can be edited and reused at any time for additional renderings.

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Starting the "Camera" tool, first, we'll set a target for the "Camera,"

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then we can establish where a rough placement for the "Camera" will be normal to that face.

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Once we've established this,

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we can double-click on the "Camera" itself and use the manipulators to reposition the "Camera" using planes or just axes.

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Clicking "OK" we can select the target and manipulate the target as well.

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Getting a rough idea of what the placement is, let's make one more adjustment.

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Sliding this just off to the side.

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We'll go back to the Camera dialogue. And we can change the zoom settings to set up the focus on the area.

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We can also set up Depth of Field if we'd like that will allow us to create renderings that as the rendering is generated,

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objects farther away from the "Camera" will begin to go out of focus.

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Clicking "OK" will create a "Camera" in the browser.

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We can right click on this "Camera" and say "Set View to Camera."

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Now we see that with our object in the screen, it looks like the target is just a little too high.

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So we can go ahead and make modifications.

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Another approach that we can use to creating a "Camera" is to simply set a point of view that we like,

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make sure that we're engaged in perspective, right click in the browser and select "Create Camera from View."

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This will create another "Camera" that is based on the current view.

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Selecting the "Render Image" tool, we can choose which "Camera" we'd like to use for rendering point of view.

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We'll select "Camera2."

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We can set the width and height of the image or we can use presets.

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Then we can change the lighting style.

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This will allow us to experiment with different lighting styles without having to change the lighting in the design.

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We'll set the lighting to "Photo Booth."

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And then we can go to the "Output" tab and choose where we'd like to save an image file.

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We can also save after the rendering if we want to explore and make sure the rendering is the quality that we want before generating a file.

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Then we go to the "Renderer" tool.

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And we can choose how we want to render this.

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We can say let the render run a certain amount of time, we can cap the number of iterations the rendering will achieve,

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and iteration will improve the view with each cycle.

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Or we can select "Until Satisfactory,"

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this will allow us to use the preview to view the quality of the rendering,

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as it's generating and stop it when the quality image gets high enough.

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For now we'll use "Render by iteration," we'll set the number to 50,

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and let's select "Render."

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This will bring up the "Render Output" window.

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And as each iteration is generated,

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we'll see that the quality of the image changes and improves with shadows developing, with highlights developing.

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Now already, I'm able to see through the preview that while this rendering looks good,

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maybe I'd like just a little something more special applied to it, because we're going to be using this image for marketing materials.

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I'm going to stop the progress of the rendering, and close the preview window.

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Maybe what I need is a little different light. I'll select "Local Lights."

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And very much like creating a "Camera," I'll select a target,

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and locate a light along the axis, rough this in,

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then make modifications to its location.

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I wanted to highlight kind of from behind, create a different type of shadow.

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We've used it as a point light, we'll set the illumination intensity to be fairly high, just as an experiment,

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and change the color from white to maybe something just to give a little contrast to the blue.

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We'll say "OK", now let's start our rendering again.

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Using "Camera2," "Photo Booth Lighting," all the same options, let's begin the "Render" again.

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We can already see the orange highlight and we can see the shadow being created by that point light.

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We’ll accelerate the progress of this rendering for the sake of time.

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We can add any number of these point lights.

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And of course, we can make modifications to the image-based lighting as well.

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Making a handful of modifications can have a dramatic effect on the appearance of your model as you create output to share with others.

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As you can see, in roughly three minutes, we've created a great looking image.

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And now let's go ahead and save that image.

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We can select a location and now we can share that rendering with others.

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When you're done, you can "Close" the Render Window and select "Finish Inventor Studio" to return back to the design.