Light Probe Volume#
A volume probe records the light incomming from all directions at many locations inside a volume.
The light is then filtered and only the diffuse light is recorded. The capture point positions are visible as an overlay when the Irradiance Volume object is selected.
オブジェクトがIrradiance Volume(イラディアンスボリューム)内にない場合、または間接照明がベイク処理されていない場合は、ワールドの拡散照明を使用してオブジェクトをシェーディングします。
Tip
屋内環境を照明するときは、グリッドを部屋の形に合わせるようにしてください。
空の領域や照明の変化が少ないエリアでは、解像度を上げすぎないようにしてください。
Bad samples can be fixed by adding a smaller grid near the problematic area.
Large scenes may require using many volumes with different level of details.
Properties(プロパティ)#
参照
- Panel(パネル):
- Intensity(強度)
Intensity factor of the recorded lighting. Making this parameter anything other than 1.0 is not physically correct. To be used for tweaking, animating or artistic purposes.
Sampling Bias
- Normal Bias
Offset sampling of the irradiance grid in the surface normal direction to reduce light bleeding. Can lead to specular appearance of diffuse surface if set too high.
- View Bias
Offset sampling of the irradiance grid in the viewing direction to reduce light bleeding. Can lead to view dependant result if set too high. Prefer this if camera is static.
- Facing Bias
When set to zero, avoids capturing points behind the shaded surface to bleed light onto the shaded surface. This produces non-smooth interpolation when the capture resolution is high. Increasing this bias will make the interpolation smoother but also introduce some light bleeding.
Validity & Dilation
During the baking process, a validity score is assigned to each capture point. This score is based on the number of back-faces hit when capturing the incoming lighting. Only materials with Single Sided turned on for Light Probe Volumes will reduce the validity score.
- Validity Threshold
Capture points with validity below this threshold will be ignored during lighting interpolation. This remove the influence of capture points trapped inside closed geometry, reducing the artifacts they produced.
- Dilation Threshold
Capture points with validity below this threshold will have their data replaced using valid neighbors.
- Radius(半径)
Radius in capture points in which to search for a valid neighbor.
Bake(ベイク)#
Light probe volume light data is static and needs to be manually baked. Once baked, the data is stored inside the object data-block and can be moved, animated and linked between blender files.
注釈
Baking uses the render visibility of the objects in the scene.
During baking, the scene is converted into a different representation to accelerate light transport. This representation can be very memory intensive and prevents baking if it cannot fit inside the GPU memory. There are a few way to deal with this issue:
Larger scenes should be divided into smaller sections or use different level of details.
Reduce Surfel Resolution.
Turn off the light probe volume visibility option on objects that have little to no effect in the bake.
Tip
The internal scene representation can be inspected using the Debug Value 3, 4 and 5.
Resolution(解像度)#
- Resolution X, Y, Z
Spatial resolution for volumetric light probes is determined per probe. The local volume is divided into a regular grid of the specified dimensions. The lighting will be captured for each cell in this grid.
- Bake Samples
Number of ray directions to evaluate when baking. This increases the baking time proportionally to the size of the scene representation.
- Surfel Resolution
Number of surfels to spawn in one local unit distance. Higher values increase quality, but have a huge impact on memory usage.
Tip
A good value is twice the maximum Resolution.
Capture#
- Capture Distance
Distance around the light probe volume that will be captured during the bake. A distance of 0 will only considered the inside of the volume.
- World Contribution
Bake incoming light from the world instead of just visibility for more accurate lighting, but lose correct blending to surrounding irradiance volumes.
- Indirect Light Contribution
Capture light bounces from light source.
- Emission Contribution
Capture emissive surfaces when baking.
Clamping#
- Direct Light
Clamp incoming direct light. 0.0 disables direct light clamping. Here direct light refers to the light that bounces only once (from the light object) or light coming from emissive materials.
- Indirect Light
Clamp incoming indirect light. 0.0 disables indirect light clamping. Here indirect light refers to the light that bounces off a surface after the first bounce (from the light object) or during the first bounce if the light comes from emissive materials.
Tip
Setting Clamp Indirect to a very non-zero value will effectively only record the first light bounce leading.
Offset(オフセット)#
In order to reduce artifacts caused by bad capture point positioning, the bake process adjusts their location before capturing light. It moves the capture points slightly away from surrounding surfaces and tries to move them out of objects if they are not too far bellow the surface.
- Surface Offset
Distance to move the capture points away from surfaces.
- Search Distance
Distance to search for valid capture positions if the capture point is near the back-face of a single-sided object.
注釈
Only materials with Single Sided turned on for Light Probe Volumes will move capture point position.
Viewport Display(ビューポート表示)#
- Data(データ)
Show the captured light using small diffuse spheres of the given size.
- Influence(影響)
3D Viewport(3Dビューポート)で影響範囲を表示します。内側の球は、フォールオフが始まる場所です。
- Clipping(クリッピング)
3D Viewport(3Dビューポート)でクリッピング距離を表示します。