Physical material Automotive

Physical material Emissive light

Physical material Metals

Uniconr Render’s materials are based on intuitive real-world analysis and are physically based (*.MDL file format support).

Why PHYSICAL?

Everybody can understand that the realism of one material is defined by the interaction of its internal parameters (reflection, refraction, matte level, etc..) with the light present in the scene. When receiving any sun’s rays or other source of light, each material reacts differently.

The biggest problem is the way how a material is developed. Nowadays it is common to see a material to gives an astonishing level of realism in a day scene, however, the same material with the same parameters can look fake if the light changes.

This problem does not exist anymore in Unicorn Render because each material has its own definition programmed internally. In this case, no matter how changes the environment, your scene will look photorealistic.

Ready Materials

Getting high-level materials is not anymore a struggle as UNICORN Render developed a new way of defining and applying materials thanks to the concept of “Ready materials”. Simply choose one material and select its type (ex: glass frosted, clear, physical, smokey, etc..).

Layered Materials

Unicorn Render materials library is based on a hierarchical materials model, with materials created as they would be in the real world. This feature allows you to add any modification without being lost in a complex interface. Any coating (ex: to create scratches) can be added independently on an existing material which gives the user full freedom during the material edition. It is for example possible to add light emission properties to any materials.

• True physics-based materials
• Multi-layered real-world structure
• Preconfigured Material Library
• Template-based Material Editor
• Comprehensive Material Components
• NVIDIA MDL support
• AxF Measured Materials

Examples of Metals,  Glasses, woods

Physical material Industry

Physical translucent materials

Full set of existing materials

• Diffuse
• Roughness & glossiness
• Subsurface Scattering / Translucency
• Specular
• Relief (bump, normal, displacement mappings)
• Opacity
• Reflection
• Fresnel reflections
• Anisotropic reflections
• UV mapping
• Emissive mapping
• IES emissive materials
• Image emissive materials
• Drag and Drop material from the material library or any image on your PC onto an Object, Colour, or Layer
• Material assignment by Object, Colour, or Layer
• Material alias, which gives the possibility to replace imported material with Accurate materials (one material in Sketchup that is named “Mirror to real mirror material
• All-in project material, all information, including images are stored in the project file.

Additional coatings to a material

Additional layer Surface to create effects such as Scratches

Material panel

Additional layer decal to create effects such as Image on top

• .Unicorn Render integrates a high-level, global illumination unbiased rendering technology that generates photorealistic images by simulating the physical behavior of light interaction with surfaces and volumes.
• Images are progressively refined to provide full global illumination, more lighting there is in a scene the faster an image will converge. Unicorn Render uses a denoiser algorithm Artificial Intelligence by the Nvidia Optix tm
• With the introduction of Physical sky and HDRI light, simply define the location of your model (Google Maps API), the date, and daytime to obtain the type of lighting expected in your scene, or use polar coordinates to define the sun’s position in a free reference

Physical Sky

• UNICORN Render creacreateeste it for you! While changing the daytime, the sky parameters change accordingly. You can reproduce any type of daylight (sunset, sunrise, early morning, afternoon) without any doubt and obtain high-performance lighting without any effort.

Real-Time processing lighting effect to enhance the scene

Unicorn Render integrates a real-time tone-mapper rendering technology that generates automatic illumination according to the tone chosen.

Images are calculated just by changing the value of Brightness and all materials and lights are automatically adapted.

You do not need to add additional light panels or change the material definition to make the image more visible.

In this example, the same scene is rendered with tone mapper brightness  5  / 15 / 25 / 40 without any additional light or adjustment.

Scene concept

A scene is a project at a specific time. Thus each scene stores Natural light such as sun or HDRI, Artificial Light background, and several camera settings. Unicorn Render allows you to create, within a project, several scenes with different configurations and settings.

Switch from one scene to another in one single file

One big advantage of “scene management” is the fact that you don’t need to re-edit from one scene to another (day & night for example) as they react according to the lighting & environment modifications, it means that your scene will look realistic at any time and without any changes.

• Perspective/Orthographic/Spherical projections
• 2D View Panes for Intuitive Camera Control
• Full interactive camera control (pan, dolly, tumble)
• Interactive focal length
• Realtime depth-of-field
• Interactive tone mapping & white-balancing

Geometry Editing directly in Unicorn Render

Usually, it is easier to manage, fix, or simply adjust the geometry of one model directly from the modeling side because all functions are developed and because all entities are managed in their native format, without any loss or damage to the geometry.

​With a full panel of functions, UNICORN allows one to do the main actions on any selected geometry.

​It is possible :

• to Unify a selection of meshes
• to recalculate normals making different smoothing settings
• to display or hide any selected geometry
• to define smoothing while importing or on a selected geometry (or group of meshes)
• Delete geometries
• Recalculate texture coordinates of geometries
• Move geometries
• Rotate geometries
• Scale geometries
• and more…

Artificial lights ready to use

Unicorn Render has the full support of IES files and has already hundreds of IES files ready to use developed by manufacturers.

Easy to place

Thanks to its 2D views control panel, Unicorn Render improves the usability of the interface. Rotating, scaling, define targets easily has never been so easy.

Artificial Light type

Point, Spot, Distant, Area Rectangular, Area Circular, all light type can be simple light or IES (photometric light)

Any Image can become a light

Any surface- geometry can be used to place an image and used as a light, the resultant light will be the color pixel and power indicated in the control panel

Groups management

Create a group to store the lights added to the model and multiply the intensity of a full group of lights in one click.