Overview

The Beauty Render Elements are the primary render elements that form V-Ray's pre-composited final render Beauty RGB_Color. When rendering a scene, the image that is output is called the Beauty render. This render is comprised of many elements such as diffuse color, shadows, lighting, and reflections that are composited together to form that final Beauty look. All these component elements may be broken out into separate render elements which can be used to control different aspects of the final image during compositing.

With this workflow, sometimes called "Back to Beauty" Compositing, many components in the render from its lighting, reflections, and refractions, to its shadows and Global Illumination can be easily adjusted to fine-tune the Beauty render without the need to re-render the scene, saving time and increasing artistic options.

More information on the process of Back to Beauty Compositing may be found on the Beauty | RGB Render Element page.

Render Element Examples

The following are examples of render elements frequently used in Back to Beauty Compositing.

Beauty Render Element

Alpha Render Element

Diffuse Filter Render Element

Specular Render Element

Global Illumination Render Element

Raw Global Illumination Render Element

Lighting Render Element

Light Select Render Element

Raw Lighting Render Element

Total Lighting Render Element

Raw Total Lighting Render Element

Reflection Render Element

Raw Reflection Render Element

Reflection Filter Render Element

Reflection Glossiness Render Element

Raw Reflection Highlight Glossiness Render Element

Reflection Index Render Element

Refraction Render Element

Raw Refraction Render Element

Refraction Filter Render Element

Shadow Render Elements

Raw Shadow Render Element

Matte Shadow Render Element

Atmosphere Render Element

Caustics Render Element

Self Illumination Render Element

Subsurface Scattering Render Element