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Render Elements Panel and Rollout 131
The rendered elements are also displayed on
the desktop, e ach in its own rendered frame
window. (The rendered frame windows are
displayed on top of each other.)
To generate a Combustion™ work space (CWS) file
that contains the render ed el ements:
1.
In the Output to Combustion group, turn on
Enable.
Ifyouhaveassignedafilenamefortheentire
rendering, the new element is assigned a file
name automatically. Otherwise, use the Files
button in the Output to Combustion group to
assign an output file name for the CWS file.
2. If you want to change the file or pathname click
... [ellipsis].
3. Do one of the following:
• Render the scene. The CWS file is created at
thetimeoftherendering.
• Create Combustion Workspace N o w.
Use this button to create a Combustion
workspace at any time. You do not have to
renderfortheworkspacetobecreated.
Note: This only works if there is at least one
Render Element selected and if your Render
Output file t ype (set on the Common panel)
is AVI, RPF, CIN, JPG, PNG, MOV, RGB,
RLA, TGA, TIF, or EXR.
Interfa ce
Add—Click to add a new element to the list. This
button displays the
Render Elements dialog (page
3–133)
.
Merge—Click to merge the render elements from
another 3ds Max scene. Merge displays a file
dialog so you can select the scene file to get the
elements from. The list of render elements in the
selected file is added to the current list.
Delete—Click to delete t he selected elements from
the list.
Elements Active—When on, clicking Render
renders the separate elements. Default=on.