We have added Render Presets to the Rendering Panel in Rhino 8.
Render Presets can save time for 3D artists that need quick results without a lot of effort.
The presets include Studio and Exterior, each offering sub-categories:
Studio
Industrial Design
Industrial Design Colorful
Jewelry
Automotive
Architectural Exterior
Urban
Rural
Sunset
Rendering Presets are preconfigured settings that determine the look and feel of a 3D scene. They minimize the amount of options the user needs to pick, while obtaining results that respond to a certain industry style.
Each Preset includes specific background and illumination setups, that can be tweaked to fine tune the result. They affect both the Rendering and Raytraced display as well as the final Rendered image.
Switching any preset to āCustomā allows access to the full range of detailed controls in the Rendering panel.
To try it out:
Open Rhino 8 WIP
Go to the Window menu > Panels > select Rendering to open this panel.
Click on the Presets dropdown menu and select the desired option.
just as the āresolution & qualityā section must be shown irrespective of whether a render preset is in use, it is also necessary to show the custom render settings sections of a 3rd-party render plugin, when it is set as the current renderer
otherwise, as those settings are often similarly unrelated to the concepts encapsulated in a rendering preset, the predictable result will be that the first thing a person does is switch to the custom preset, and eventually save their template files with render preset set to custom
I notice that all of the Rendering Presets have a default resolution of 1920x1920, which isnāt a resolution I use, but is easy to change in the panel.
However, if you first change the resolution (to say, 1920x1080) and then change the preset (from Industrial to Jewelry, for example) the panel will still say 1920x1080 until you hit the Render Button. After you hit the Render button, then the resolution immediately switches back to 1920x1920.
same as above for custom sun sections, and any others
have to switch to the ācustomā preset to see my settings
I can understand the apparent motivation of wanting to simplify things, but please keep it to simplifying use of rhino/raytraced, not 3rd-party renderers
@jd it may be worth discussing having bella automatically switch to custom settings and disable the presets for 3rd party render engines. @andy any thoughts?
I think that would not work, since you may save a file with a preset, with rhino as current renderer, and then open it later with some other renderer active, and it will be better to not have the gui confusingly switching for a reason that would not be apparent to the user
and also, the presets donāt need to go away, they are surely just an abstraction working in terms of the underlying render/scene settings, so a renderer should not even need to know/care whether they are being used
my only request here is just that when rhino is not the current renderer, the custom renderer-specific settings/sun/etc sections the 3rd-party renderer provides are shown, regardless if a preset is active
ostensibly, the simplification the presets provide is partially targeted at people who only occasionally render, and I think that by definition, these would not be people who have bought & installed a 3rd-party renderer, and that those who have (bought a renderer) may find some utility in the presets, but not want to have rhino hiding interfaces provided by that renderer, when they have installed it, and set it current
Waitā¦ you are announcing new preset system in Rhino 8 and user canāt even save their own presets? How many months after Rhino 8 release we need to wait for this āfeatureā to be added?
This is waay below mvp level.
This is a nice idea, and as @moby-dk says we need to be able to add our own.
Both to the document and as presets. It is IMPORTANT to have both so pro users can quickly use inhouse settings (new document level) and at the same time tweak them for the project at hand (current document level)
This would be great for our use, if the presets could work on a document level:
That way I would be able to swap from night mode, with sun off and a custom hdri, to morning mode with low sun and a different HDRI, and then to day mode with other settings, on the click of preset buttons. Instead of having to do this manually by setting different sun times and hdriās.
And while you are at this PLEASE add a custom vram slider for sun shadows. This is needed and never get traction.
Agreed, user defined presets would be great-
Ideally something that could be packaged and sent to another machine to be able to duplicate a render set up.
Yep, and please increase the max v-ram for shadows, put that RTX 3090 24 GB to work.
Personally, Iām only interested in custom presets for an OpenGL viewport appearance that can ship with the document. Without multiple custom presets, this whole feature is non-existent for me and I suspect the same goes for everyone who does some renders.
THIS
Custom display modes are worth nothing for bigger studios if we canāt print the same document from different machines, or revisit old/other projects with out getting different results because the display mode modifications are computer bound and not document bound.
I could picture it following the example of materials, where you can grab a plastic or metal preset and then switch to custom materials for further modification.
