Lighting

Lighting features of Iray Interactive render mode include:

• Ray-traced, accurate hard- and soft-shadows

• Accurate reflections and refractions

• Efficient direct light sampling, including light profiles

• Efficient multi-scale environment sampling. Initial coarse-scale approximation with low noise level converges quickly over time to an accurate result

• Approximated indirect lighting (diffuse and glossy but diffuse-only on primary hit).

• Fast, smooth approximation of matte ground shadows

• Two ambient-occlusion modes (diffuse AO, AO guided by environment)