Provides an enhanced visualization experience that reduces the need for a separate rendering environment for producing realistic views of your design.
Access
On the View tab
Appearance panel, click Ray Tracing
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Mode |
Interactive |
Good |
Best |
| Max Progressive Iterations | 4 | 16 | 64 |
| Ambient Occlusion | Follows Ambient Shadows UI setting; ON or OFF | Follows Ambient Shadows UI setting; ON or OFF | Follows Ambient Shadows UI setting; ON or OFF |
| Global Illumination | Always OFF | Always OFF | Follows Ambient Occlusion setting |
| IBL Method | Ambient environment light only | Physical lighting from environment | Physical lighting from environment |
- Ray Tracing Controls
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- Fold/Unfold
- Click the arrow to collapse the render mode section. Move the cursor over the bar title area to expand the mode section.
- Modes
- Displays the three render mode options. The default is Interactive. Selecting a different mode halts the ray tracing process, and begins again using the selected mode settings.
- Progress
- Displays the progress of display refinement based on the render mode. Displays the percentage complete and elapsed time.
- Pause
- Interrupts the ray tracing process at the current refinement state. Click Continue to resume the ray tracing process. Changing view orientation or settings causes the ray tracing process to reset and start anew.
- Disable
- Halts the ray tracing process. Closes the ray tracing interface.
- Visual styles that can have ray tracing enabled
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- Realistic
- Enabled automatically.
- Monochrome
- Disabled, manually enable via the ribbon access point.
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