Summary

There are many other powerful features of Reality, including procedural textures, mixed textures, animation, and more. This chapter is meant to just give you an overview of the capabilities of the program.

With Reality and LuxRender, we can access a level of realism that was previously restricted to 3D applications costing thousands of dollars.

Since I started working with computers, 30 years ago, I have been intrigued by how technology can enable people to do extraordinary things. Reality is an example of what technology can do. Because of the generosity and genius of the developers of LuxRender, we have a renderer today that can generate physically accurate images for free. This, in turn, made it possible to write an inexpensive program like Reality, which makes this kind of technology extremely affordable.

With all the content available in the market today, the Studio artist has access to almost limitless expressions. We can build entire worlds from premade assets and populate them...