The built-in entourage library has a good selection of plants, people, cars, furniture, etc., with which to populate your model for rendering. Setting your view to polystyrol or white in the Rendering tab of the Visual Settings Panel will ignore any colors in your materials to give you a base render to collage onto in photoshop.

If you are only using the rendering for shade and shadow, and you plan to do most of your rendering work in photoshop, then you likely need to just focus on the transparency and reflectivity. You can set the time of day in the sun settings or in enscape.Įnscape can use the same materials that you used for rhino render or vray, or you can make ones with the enscape material editor. Set the angle to match which way is North in your model and set the location to Chicago, so that rhino has the right sun angle. This sun location and angle are important for any rendering, especially if “north” in your model does not correspond to actual north.

Sun | Rhino’s Explanation of the Sun Control In the meantime, you can use the software free for 14 days.

You may apply for an educational license to Enscape here with your IIT email address. Enscape has a number of useful aspects, including the built-in library of entourage (people, trees, cars, furniture, etc.), and also that it is a real-time renderer, so you can see what your model looks like without having to wait for a full render to complete, and then repeat when you change a material.Ĭurrently Enscape is only available for Windows, so Mac users who are interested in making animations, please see my post about animating in Rhino. Enscape is different from Rhino Render, VRay, etc, because this software essentially lets you navigate your Rhino model like a video game.

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