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Chief Architect X10 Reference Manual

1 Chief Architect’s ray tracer works with
a color range greater than what your It’s not unusual for ray traced images to
monitor or printer can display. When Use initially be too dark or too bright. Try
Tone Mapping is checked, these colors are adjusting the Tone Mapping Intensity.
intelligently mapped to a displayable range.
Uncheck this box to simplify how the colors 2 General Properties -
are converted and disable the settings below.
• Uncheck Auto Contrast to enable the • Specify the Brightness of the image,
Contrast setting below. When checked, which controls how dark or light the
the program chooses a Contrast value image is overall.
based on the image’s properties. • Specify the Contrast, or relative differ-
• Specify the Contrast, which is the rela- ence between light and dark colors. This
tive difference between light and dark setting is similar to the setting of the
colors in the view, using the slider bar or same name, above, but is not as fine a
by typing in the text field control because it takes place after tone
mapping has been done.
• Specify the Intensity. or brightness of the
image. This value not necessarily uni- • Specify the Saturation, which is the
form throughout the view and is similar intensity of colors in the view.
to a camera’s exposure setting. Don’t be afraid to over-saturate your image
• Specify the Softness, which determines slightly in very bright scenes – this is a
whether color intensity is based on pixel common occurrence in actual photographs.
or overall image intensity. If you are ray tracing an interior scene where
• Specify the Color Correction, which is the primary source of light is the sun through
the extent to which strong color casts are a window or door, you may need to adjust
removed from the image. your image brightness.

3 Click the Reset to Defaults button to
restore the settings in this dialog to their
initial, installed values.

Ray Trace Assistant

The Ray Trace Assistant is an easy way to View/Ray Trace Defaults Dialog” on page
set up new ray trace configurations. It can be 1123.
accessed by clicking the Create New button The choices in the Ray Trace Assistant
in the Ray Trace Current View/Ray Trace
Defaults dialog. See “Ray Trace Current correspond to settings in the Ray Trace
Options dialog. See “Ray Trace Options” on
page 1124.

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