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nXt Material Library Installer EXE

Manually Setting Up Material Libraries for AccuRender nXt

AccuRender NXT Basics Video

Rendering
Tone-mapping

Adding and assigning materials
Editing materials
Converting legacy (AR3/AR4) material libraries

Lighting
Adding lights

Working with Plants

Tutorials
Archived Webinars

Working with textures
Displacement mapping
Mapping materials to objects
Working with decals
Working with Reflection Shaders

Adding indirect lighting to an exterior rendering
Combining daylighting and artificial lighting for an interior rendering
HDRIs
Multi-channel renderings
Using IES (photometric) lights

Path Tracer
Volumetric Fog
Sub-surface Scattering

WalkAbout

Controlling tesselation-- smoothing curved objects
Using Archvision RPC with nXt
Using Textured Mesh Files (*.3ds, *.obj) with nXt

The nXt Image Editor

The nXt Render Farm

nXt AutoLisp Reference

• Lighting
  
  • The Advanced Lighting tab
    
  • The Sky Tab
    
  • The Lights Tab
    
  • The Backgrounds Tab
    
  • The Sun Tab

• Materials
  
  • The Advanced Material Editor
    • The Transparency Tab
      
    • The Texture Maps Tab
      
    • The Bumps Tab
      
    • The Material Tree
      

• Render Settings
  

• Object Properties
  
  • The Advanced Object Properties Tab
    
  • The Luminaire Tab
    
  • The Decal Box
    

• WalkAbout
  
  • 3D slide show animations
    
  • Sun study animations
    
  • Batch rendering
    
  • Render farming
    
  • The Main Tab
    
  • The Background Tab
    
  • The Special FX Tab
    

• Widgets
  

• The Options Menu
  

Installation Issues
Rendering has some bright spots or "speckle" artifacts
Materials assigned by layer are not appearing in the rendering
Crash occurs on 32-bit system (hi-res or complex model)

Build History
Specifications