You’ve set up your scene in Blender. The lighting looks great, your materials reflect beautifully, and your camera is perfectly framed. Now you’re ready to hit Render — but a wave of uncertainty hits. Cycles or Eevee? What’s the right number of samples? What even are light paths, and do they matter? If this sounds …

For many CG artists, 3D painting has become a standard element in workflows for creating textures in a 3D environment. As new renderers are released, there are export presets that have to be made on their own. Two years ago, CG artist Yohsuke Nakano made a workflow preset that works for Radeon ProRender for Maya, …

Image Based Lighting (IBL) is a very easy and high-quality simulation of real-world lighting. You can project an environment map onto a virtual sphere that acts as a scene environment. The projected map is used to illuminate the scene and add reflection to the surface of the object. How to Use ProRender’s IBL in Maya …

Settings in the System tab allows for control of the basic system behavior. In AMD Radeon ProRender, system settings allow you to select the hardware used for rendering and for settings such as final rendering and preview (viewport render and thumbnail images). For viewport rendering and thumbnails, it’s best to choose a lower-quality setting or …

The Common tab in AMD Radeon ProRender is used for setting up your file’s render output. Most of these settings and parameters work exactly like the render engine that comes built into Maya. Please look at the Render settings: Common tab information in Maya’s user documentation for more information. EXR Output Radeon ProRender supports its …

Settings in the Sampling tab have a major effect on image quality. To render the image, AMD Radeon ProRender casts a large number of ray samples to every pixel. Each time a new sample value is added to a pixel, the sampling results are averaged to calculate the pixel color. The resulting image is rendered …

Arbitrary Output Variables (AOVs) provide custom render passes for arbitrary shader components. This can be a good way for artists to debug or tweak very fine details of a scene in post processing. There are a variety of elements such as direct and indirect lighting, reflection types, ambient occlusion, and more. These render passes provide …

Emissive Materials can turn any object into a light source that can be used to illuminate a scene. You can use the RPR UberMaterial shader or RPR materials of the emissive type to add emissive properties to faces. How to Create and Assign Emissive Material on Selected Objects You can assign emissive materials to objects …

Settings in the Effects tab defines whether additional processing or effects need to be applied to the rendered output. Motion Blur Motion blur is the effect caused by moving objects in a regular photo during the exposure time of the camera. Fast object or camera speeds, or long exposures, can create a “blurring” effect on …