{"id":253,"date":"2007-10-22T20:10:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/22\/vray-tutorial-color-mapping.htm"},"modified":"2007-10-22T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T18:10:20","slug":"vray-tutorial-color-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/22\/vray-tutorial-color-mapping.htm","title":{"rendered":"V-ray and Color Mapping tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/color-mapping.jpg\" alt=\"color mapping\" \/><!--adsense#half_banner2--><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/category\/vray-tutorial\/\">Vray Tutorial<\/a> ]<strong> V-ray<\/strong> has various method to control the light in the scene. You can tune the lights and the environement but also you can play with <strong>Color Mapping<\/strong> settings.<\/p>\n<p>With Color Mapping we can manage the shadow intensity and the brigtness, so it&#8217;s very important to understand perfectly this rollout.<\/p>\n<p>There are different type of algorithm with <strong>Color mapping in vray 1.5<\/strong>: Linear, Exponential, Exponential HSV, Intensity Exponential, Reinhard and Gamma Correction &#8230; and we can read the official guide to understand all about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spot3d.com\/vray\/help\/150R1\/render_params_colormapping.htm\"> Vray &#8211; Official guide about Color Mapping<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I also found a very nice tutorial explaining the differences between Linear, Exponential, Exponential HSV&#8230; is an italian tutorial but it&#8217;s very simple so you can use the google language tools to read in english this tutorial!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.treddi.com%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Fshowtopic%3D21451&amp;langpair=it%7Cen&amp;hl=it&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;prev=%2Flanguage_tools\" title=\"color mapping\">Understanding Color Mapping<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Related post &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/23\/linear-workflow-3ds-vray.htm\">Linear WorkFlow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Vray Tutorial ] V-ray has various method to control the light in the scene. You can tune the lights and the environement but also you can play with Color Mapping settings. With Color Mapping we can manage the shadow intensity and the brigtness, so it&#8217;s very important to understand perfectly this rollout. There are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cg-blog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}