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214 Chapter 18: Effects and Environments
Effects Panel and Rollout (page 3–215)
Environment Panel (page 3–268)
Rendering Effects
Intr oducti on to Render ing Ef fects
Rendering Effects enable you to add
post-production effects without having to
render the scene to see the results. Through the
Effects panel (page 3–215) on the Environment
and Effects dialog, you can add var ious effects and
view them prior to final rendering of an image or
animation.
Render Effects let you work interactively. As you
adjust an effect’s parameters, the
rendered frame
window (page 3–5)
is updated with the final output
imageofboththescenegeometryandtheapplied
effects. You can also choose to cont inually work
w ith an effect and then update the effect manually.
The following topics explain each Render Effect
in detail.
Hair and Fur Render Effect (p age 3–216)
Lens Effects Rendering Effects (page 3–219)
Blur Rendering Effect (page 3–256)
Brightness and Contrast Rendering Effect (page
3–261)
Color Balance Rendering Effect (page 3–261)
Depth of Field Rendering Effect (page 3–265)
File Output Rendering Effect (page 3–262)
Film Grain Rendering Effect (page 3–264)
Motion Blur Rendering Effect (page 3–265)
Rendering Effects and 32–bit
Floati ng-Point Output
Most rendering effects in 3ds Max are not
compatible with 32-bit floating-point output,
such as that provided optionally by the mental
ray renderer (see
Frame Buffer Type ). If you
render using one or more unsupported effects, the
followingdialogappears:
Yo u c a n c h o o s e t o c o n t i n u e re n d e r i n g w i t h o u t t h e
unsupported effects, or cancel the render.
The only supported effects are File Output and
Color Balance; the rest (shown in the dialog above)
are unsupported.
R enderi ng Ef fects Command
Rendering menu > Effects > Environment and Effects
dialog > Effects panel
Effectsdisplaysthe Effects p anel (page 3–215) on
the Environment and Effects dialog, which lets you
set parameters for post-rendering effects.
From this panel, you can select and assign a
class of plug-in called Render Effect, which is a
post-rendering image-processing effect. This lets
yo u apply image processing without using Video
Post.