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are updated immediately, as you drag the mouse.
Default=on.
TurningoffActOnlyOnMouseUpcanmakethe
ActiveShadewindowmoreresponsivetochanges,
but it can also slow performance.
Auto Initialization—When on, changes you make to
textures (mapped materials) automatically cause
the ActiveShade window to initialize. Default=on.
Initialization can be time consuming in complex
scenes. To save time, you can turn off Automatic
Reinitialization, or use Draw Region to restrict
initialization and shading updates to only a
portion of the scene.
Auto Update—When on, changes you
make to lighting, and materials without
maps, automatically cause an update of the
ActiveReshade window . Default=on.
View quadrant (upper left)
Clo se —Closes the ActiveShade window. If the
ActiveShade window was docked in a viewpor t,
the viewpor t reverts to the view it previously
displayed.
Pr es et Rend er in g Opt ion s
Render Scene dialog > Preset drop-down list (on the
bottom row of controls)
Preset rendering options are available from the
Rendering Presets drop-down list, which appears
at the bottom of the
Render Scene dialog (page
3–2)
. Some of the presets are tailored for relatively
quick, preview renderings; others are for slower
but higher quality renderings. Presets are saved
as RPS files.
Tip: The Render Shortcuts toolbar (page 3–736)
lets you quick ly switch between active presets.
In addition to the default presets that ship with
3ds Max, you can also create your own settings. At
the bottom of t he preset list, two choices let you
create your own custom presets:
Load Pr eset—When you choose Load Preset,
3dsMaxdisplaysafileselectordialogthatletsyou
choose the RPS file t o load.
Each category corresponds to one panel of the
Render Scene dialog. Choose which panel’s
settings you want to load from the RPS file, and
click Load. Once you load a custom preset file, its
name appears on the drop-down list, along with
the default choices.
Impor tant: Even though the renderer is assigned in the
Common panel of the Render Scene dialog, renderer
assignments are
not loaded with the Common category
in the RPS file. The current renderer assignme nt has
its
own category
in the Select Preset Categories dialog. For
example, if the current renderer is the Default Scanline
Renderer, the Select Preset Categories dialog will have a
category labeled
Default Scanline Renderer .
Sav e Preset —
When you choose Save Preset,
3ds Max first displays a file selector dialog, letting
younametheRPSfile.Afterthat,theSelectPreset
Categories dialog opens.