Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Clay Rendering

At times it will necessary (or just cool) to see the scene rendered without textures or materials.  If you are really good at faking reality, some will ask for a "clay render" to verify that your image isn't a photograph -- that's when you know you are good.

So instead of having to create a new blank material and manually apply it to every object in your scene, there is an AddOn which will do it for you.

This AddOn can be found here: ClayRender.py

To demonstrate how simple and effective it is, I'll start with a city scene that is already textured (generated by Suicidator City Generator).

After the AddOn is installed and enabled through the User Preferences menu, on the Camera tab there is now a new section under Render where you can enable Clay Render.

Enabling Clay Render and re-rendering will give the following perfectly non-textured image.

No comments:

Post a Comment