Vectorworks RenderWorks: New in Version 2008: Rendering

Interactive OpenGL Shadows
You can now cast shadows in OpenGL renderings. Shadows move in real-time as the position of the light changes-which is great for shadow studies.

OpenGL Backgrounds
You can now show backgrounds when rendering scenes in OpenGL, which means you can quickly show projects in the context of their site and have additional presentation options in OpenGL.

New OpenGL Draw Edges Option
This new option allows you to view the outer edges of objects in an OpenGL rendering in the same way as in a hidden-line rendering. This makes objects appear more clearly defined by displaying the edges of all objects, including curved surfaces such as cylinders.

Final Gather Rendering
Support for final gather rendering allows you to better represent indirect lighting effects and produce more efficient, higher-quality renderings. Final gather can be used with Custom RenderWorks or combined with radiosity to increase rendering speed and quality. It removes triangular artifacts sometimes left after a Radiosity rendering. It allows you to use HDRI backgrounds for interior renderings. And, is multi-threaded so will take advantages of all the processor a machine has.

New Bump Shaders for RenderWorks
RenderWorks includes many new bump shaders to allow you to add texture or relief to corresponding colour shaders. For example, there's a new brick bonds bump shader to complement the brick bonds colour shader. There's also a "from colour"bump shader that looks to the current colour shader to set the bump locations and heights. And, you'll find the new paver colour and bump shader useful for creating rough tiling or stone paving textures.

New Wood Texture and Image Files from arcitex®
111 new high-quality wood materials from arcitex® will add another dimension to your drawings and models.

Layered Rendering Effects in Viewports
You can now overlay rendering styles to create interesting presentations. For example, you can set a background to final-quality RenderWorks and set the foreground to sketch to create a coloured rendering that looks hand rendered.

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