HyperShot Pro v1.9

I will not tell much about the obvious things that anyone can understand using this program.
HyperShot Pro v1.9 what is it? High quality, interactive, photorealistic rendering of your industrial and product designs.That is its main task - it's subject visualization. Why it is not suitable for interiors? The most basic, the lack of light sources. The rest you'll understand if you still try to render the interior.

At the moment (20,11,2010 year) already exist several versions and variations of such interactive renders. They differ from each other a bit. We take a look at HyperShot Pro v1.9.

What he can do?

Open these file types.There are also plugins to connect to Rhino, SolidWorks, SketchUp, ProE.

Before exporting the model in HyperShot make sure that objects which will be assigned a variety of materials are in different layers, or to include in the parameters of the object in the tab material, click Basic

Main

The basic commands of the program. Open model, open the image environment, open an image for the background, display library materials. Save ScreenShot and render. (Personally, I do not use function render, renders all my cars had to take a screenshot.)

Image

My advice is do not touch these settings, but change the resolution of the image. These values are balanced.

Camera

In this menu, you can keep the camera set to freeze the camera to avoid accidental rotation and of course reset the camera to its original position. You can also change the focal length, tilt the camera and the depth of field. (Very frequently used menu)

Environment

HyperShot lighting model uses HDRi map whose settings can be found here. The most frequently used (by me), this option Brightness and Rotation. But better to change the brightness of driving a desired value in the appropriate field, and the rotation of the environment map is more convenient to change interactively by holding down the Ctrl key to pull the left mouse button. Brightness is also possible to change the hot keys to avoid high-brightness light on the model, but difficult to find a middle ground, a step which changes the value can not do it (but certainly not in all cases). Gamma, again, better not touch!
Another option that many people forget to use the Environment Height Adjustment. In conjunction with the Flatten Ground Environment Size and configured the environment map in order to adequately display and scale relative to the model, as well as to control glare environments.

Brightness = 1; Height=0

Brightness = 0.56; Height=0

Brightness = 0.56; Height=-0.44

Brightness = 0.34; Height=-0.44

Render

As mentioned above, I do not use this menu, because the quality and speed compared and interactive calculation incomparable. Be sure to try to understand what it is. Where, without this function can not do, so if you need to do is render Turntable.

Pro

This menu is available settings for network rendering and setting Turntable Rendering.

Settings

This menu allows you to adjust the quality of interactive rendering. This is the most important menu for the final result! For easy manipulation of a model in search of a good angle or a beautiful highlight these options can be left as is, or even reduce it. And once all the cameras are stored, all angles and materials are set - these settings can be set to maximum. (I have a 6600 quad processor 8 gig of RAM. Never crashes, the computer does not slow down, much ... but the quality after a few minutes is impressive.)
And there is another option that should not be afraid to exaggerate - it's Glossy samples in the settings of the material, my work values is usually 128.

2 минуты
Ray Bounces 6
Shadow Quality 1
Detailed Shadows +
Detailed Indirect Ilumination –
Glossy Samples 8

2 минуты
Ray Bounces 32
Shadow Quality 5
Detailed Shadows +
Detailed Indirect Ilumination +
Glossy Samples 128