Navigating the Model

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Render Presets Manager

Render tab > Render panel > Manage Render Presets

Almost identical to the Advanced Render Settings palette

Difference:

Can remove a custom render preset in the Rendered Presets Manager

Create a new preset from an existing one (only available in the drawing in which it is created)

Output Size

Output size: 640 x 480 (320 x 240, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768)

Specify Output Size

Width, Height, and Image Aspect values

Sport File Format

BMP: Windows Bitmap

PCX: PC Paintbrush

TGA: Targa

TIF: Tagged Image File

JPG & JPEG: JPEG File

PNG: Portable Network Graphics

Advanced Render Setting

Render a scene and output an image to a file

Render tab> Render panel > Advanced Render Setting

Using the Advanced Render Settings palette, can fine-tune settings that affect the rendering of a scene

There are some elements that the default presets do not take advantage of, such as shadow maps, global illumination, and final gather

Ray tracing

• affects how light bounces off materials and how reflections and refractions are calculated
• creates sharper shadows than shadow maps do

Global Illumination and Final Gather options

• improve the accuracy of how light bounces off objects in a scene
• Using indirect illumination, enhance a scene by simulating radiosity, which can help to improve the way light fills a room and the way colors bleed off some objects onto others

e.g. the color from the metal cabinet bleeds onto the wall in real life based on how the light hits it

Render Context: Contains settings that affect what is rendered and the final output of the render

Materials: Contains settings that affect how materials are used during rendering

Sampling: Contains settings that affect how sampling is handled for rendering

Shadows: Contains settings that affect how shadows are calculated and appear in a rendering

Ray Tracing: Contains settings that affect the shading of objects in a rendering

Global Illumination: Contains settings that affect how a scene is illuminated

Final Gather: Contains settings that affect how Global Illumination (GI) is calculated

Light Properties: Contains settings that affect how indirect illumination is calculated

Visual: Contains settings that control how some of the visual aids are displayed to help explain how some of the features of the renderer behave

Processing: Contains settings that can affect the time in which the rendering is completed

Image Information

Using the image information, can compare the render settings of two entries in the History pane

Render History

Saved: a folder icon and a user-specified name and file type

Temporary: a clock and green arrow icon, meaning that the file has not been given a proper name and file type

Deleted Output: a red X, meaning that the output files associated with the entry have been deleted

Right-click an entry in the History pane:

Save: Saves the selected entry to a file, and the icon for the entry is updated to a file folder with a red check mark

Remove From the List: Removes the entry from the History pane but does not delete the saved output

Delete Output File: Deletes the output file and leaves the entry in the History pane