Overview

The Atmosphere Render Element stores only atmospheric or volumetric participating media such as fog or Aerial Perspective. This render element can then be used to enhance or color-correct just the atmospheric component of the image during the compositing process.

When atmospheric effects or fog is included in a scene, they will render into the Beauty|RGB channel, and should also be output as the VRayAtmosphere channel for compositing use.

UI Path

||Render Setup window|| > Render Elements tab > Add button > VRayAtmosphere

Parameters

This render element is enabled through the Render Elements tab of the Render Setup window in 3ds Max and displays its parameters in a rollout at the bottom of the window:

vrayVFB – When enabled, the render element appears in the V-Ray Virtual Frame Buffer.

deep output – Specifies whether to include this render element in deep images.

color mapping – Applies the color mapping options specified in the Color mapping rollout of the V-Ray tab in the Render Setup window to this render element. This option is enabled by default.

multiplier – Sets the overall intensity of the render element, where 1.0 is the standard multiplier.

denoise – Specifies whether to denoise this render element.

Common Uses

The Atmosphere Render Element is useful for changing the appearance of the atmosphere and volumetric effects in a rendered image using compositing or image editing software. Below is an example of its use.

Atmosphere Render Element, with fog
generated by VRayEnvironmentFog

Original Beauty composite

Color of atmosphere changed and intensity increased

Compositing Formula

The VRayAtmosphere Render Element is added to the Beauty render to form the final image.