Hey chaps, Just wondering if any of you have some pointers or advice when it comes to adding fog to your scene using the Vray Environment Fog? Do you bother with gizmo’s? What kind of settings do you generally arrive at? And so forth. Do you find it pushes your render times through the roof, as I h…

[image] Photo or fake? Hey chaps, Just wondering if any of you have some pointers or advice when it comes to adding fog to your scene using the Vray Environment Fog? Do you bother with gizmo’s? What kind of settings do you generally arrive at? And so forth. Do you find it pushes your render time…

Rendering Fog separately as it’s own pass is the best approach for maximum control in post and drastically cutting down on render time. Just set everything in your scene to a black material, turn off GI if desired, and only render the Fog.

yeah i’m also one for doing a separate scene for fog. trying to do it in a main scene is a waste of time imo, takes forever to balance a result that still isn’t as good as something you could have comped in 1/10th the time. Because my camera is usually open and all the nice rays happen in the dista…

I’m totally in agreement for having the fog in a separate pass…However, if your scene is fairly reflective then you may have a serious mis-match when you later comp the final beauty render. I’ve run into this problem on several projects and was forced to render the fog as part of the main beauty re…

Thanks for the feedback chaps. Do you guys have any “general” settings that get you in the right ball park to begin with, or do you start a fresh every time?

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Morne August 27, 2014, 7:22pm 2

Good old Peter to the rescue:

http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?47401-(another)-Farnsworth-House&p=413770#post413770

and

http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthread.php?47401-(another)-Farnsworth-House&p=413916#post413916

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