nXtRender for AutoCAD Documentation
A reference manual for nXtRender for Rendering AutoCAD models.
Contents |
Getting Started
Tutorials and Videos
- Rendering with AutoCAD
- Installation Video
- Lighting Basics Tutorial
- Interior Lights Tutorial
- nXtRender Basic Materials Tutorial
- Multipass rendering Video
The Basics
- Rendering
- Tone Mapping
- Color Maps
- Adding and assigning materials
- Lighting
- Adding lights
- Working with Plants
Beyond the Basics
- nXtRender Material Library Installer EXE
- Working with textures
- Working with decals
- Working with Reflection Shaders
- Adding indirect lighting to an exterior rendering
- Combining daylighting and artificial lighting for an interior rendering
- Working with HDRIs
- Lighting Channels
- Using IES (photometric) lights
- Rendering Engines
- Controlling tesselation-- smoothing curved objects
- Using Archvision RPC with nXtRender
- Using Textured Mesh Files (3DS or OBJ) with nXtRender
Lighting Palette
Materials Palette
- Materials Tab
- Advanced Material Editor
- The Material Tree - Blending Materials
Other Palettes
Walkabout and Animation
nXtRender Add-ons
Other Advanced Topics
- Using Burn
- Image Editor
- Batch rendering
- Render Farm
- Converting Legacy AR3/AR4 Material Libraries
- Using Legacy AR3/AR4 Plants
- Volumetric Fog
- Sub-surface Scattering
Troubleshooting
- Rendering has some bright spots or "speckle" artifacts
- Materials assigned by layer are not appearing in the rendering
- Crash occurs on 32-bit system (hi-res or complex model)
