'View type' palette (for 'Shaded' rendering method)

View Type list box / View type palette

You can use the Shaded rendering method to check the design quickly and easily. Depending on the settings, you can see textures, shadows and lights.

The predefined Animation view type is based on this rendering method.

Parameters

Name

Name of the view type into which View Type list box these components are entered.

The names of the predefined view types can also be individually amended here.

Rendering method

Shaded (cannot be changed for the predefined Animation view type)

General settings

Shading styles

Select a shading style here. You can choose between Flat, Gouraud and Phong (default).

Phong shading computes the lighting effect for each pixel, producing precise light cones.

Gouraud shading computes the lighting effect at each surface point and shades the surface evenly.
You can achieve smooth color gradients using this technique.
The program calculates transparency and textures. If you require precise light cones, you must use Phong shading.

Flat shading fills surfaces with uniform colors.

Depending on the shading style, you can define more parameters:

Edges, Thickness

You can choose to display edges.

After you have chosen to display edges, you can define the Thickness of the lines by entering a value between 0.5 and 4.0.

Texture

You can choose to show textures on the screen.

Interpolation

Only if the texture option is selected.

Define how Allplan is to display textures by selecting the interpolation between the texture points:

• None
  No interpolation between the texture points (quickest method).
• Linear
  Allplan computes the color and intensity of pixels by bilinear (soft) interpolation between the nearest texture pixels.
• MIP mapping
  Allplan uses MIP mapping (multiple images of the texture map at different resolutions). Surface textures appear more natural and realistic, preventing Moiré effects.

Bump

You can choose to display bump maps.

Reflection

You can choose to display reflections.

Light

You can choose to display lights.

Shadow quality

Only if light has been selected.

You can specify whether and how you want to display shadows on the screen:

• Off
  No shadows.
• Hard
  Shadows have distinct outlines. There are hard gradients between shadows and light.
• Smooth
  There are smooth gradients between shadows and light. You can enter a value for this option in Shadow smoothing.

Shadow smoothing

Only if light is selected and the option soft is set under shadows.

You can enter a percentage, defining the smoothness of the gradients between shadows and light. Entering 0% is equivalent to selecting the Hard setting (in Shadow quality). You can achieve maximum smoothness by entering 100%.

Ambient occlusion

Only if the Phong option is set for shading styles and Light is selected.

You can use the ambient occlusion shading technique together with the Animation view type. Ambient occlusion produces realistic shadows in a relatively short period of time.

• Intensity
  You can define the intensity of ambient occlusion.
• AO distance
  Use this to control how neighboring objects interact. Define this value so that it is greater than the distance between the objects.
• Samples
  This value defines the maximum number of test runs for areas of the scene classified as being critical.

To get more information about ambient occlusion, see the Render palette - Advanced Settings palette - AO parameter.

Tone mapping

Only if the Phong option is set for shading styles and Light is selected.

You can readjust overexposed areas by reducing the dynamic range.

When you render scenes with great differences in brightness, such as scenes that contain both bright areas illuminated directly and shaded areas, you can thus reproduce the full range of light intensities present in natural scenes.

The greater the value, the more limited the dynamic range.

Bloom / Intensity

Only if the Phong option is set for shading styles and Light is selected.

When Blooming is switched on, an additional ring of light is placed around light sources, such as the sun or point-shaped sources of light. The prerequisite is therefore that the physical sky has been selected as the background via surroundings (select) or one or more artificial light sources have been set via set project light (select).

Activate Set Project Light in one of the following ways:

• Actionbar:Role Draft Task Visualization Task area Surfaces, Light

• Shortcut menu: Hovering over the empty workspace Right mouse button
• Menu bar: Change Presentation Animation

• Palette: Tools Change area in the following modules:

Animation

Activate Surroundings in one of the following ways:

• Actionbar:Role Draft Task Visualization Task area Surfaces, Light

• Shortcut menu: Hovering over the empty workspace Right mouse button
• Menu bar: Change Presentation Animation

• Palette: Tools Change area in the following modules:

Animation

Note: Blooming can only be taken into account in the display if your graphics card supports Vulkan technology for hardware acceleration (recognizable by the red dot in the title bar of the relevant graphics window). Blooming is only taken into account for rendering if it has been defined using the in-house Post process settings intended for this purpose.

Lense effect / Intensity

Only if the Phong option is set for shading styles and Light is selected.

When the lens effect is switched on, additional circular light reflections (comparable to the reflection of a light source in a camera lens) are interspersed in the image.

Note: The lens effect can only be taken into account in the display if your graphics card supports Vulkan technology for hardware acceleration (recognizable by the red dot in the title bar of the relevant graphics window). The lens effect is only taken into account for rendering if it has been defined using the in-house Post process settings intended for this purpose.

DOF / Level of detail

Only if the Phong option is set for Shading styles.

If you select this option, Allplan will include the setting for the depth of field (DOF). This is configured via 3D view (Window Toolbar).

The level of detail can be customized in this particular case.

Post process

Post process

Using the Post process options, you can put the finishing touches to a view type (most options are best suited for view types using the Shaded rendering method):

• None
  The view type appears as it is.
• Grayscale
  Colors appear in shades of gray.
• Laplace edge detection:
  Laplace filter detects edges.
• Blur
  Edges blur.
• Inversion
  Inverts colors (negative).
• Toning
  Colors appear in reddish-brown.
• ROB edge detection
  ROB filter detects edges.
• Cartoon
  Fills surfaces with colors that are clearly delimited by defined edges; no color gradients.

Selection preview

Suppress in viewport

Deactivates the selection preview (Element display in the selection preview color and element information) when hovering over design elements with the cursor in all graphic windows in which this view type has been set.