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28 Chapter 17: Rendering
All area and linear lights in the scene are
treated as point lights during the rendering.
This reduces rendering time, however some
quality is lost. When you are ready to render
at high quality, you can simply turn off Area
Lights/Shadows As Points and render again.
Note: Scenes with radiosity (page 3–50) are not
affectedbytheAreaLights/ShadowsAsPoints
toggle, as area lights do not have a significant
effect on the performance of a radiosity
solution.
Interfa ce
Time Output group
Select which frames you want to render.
Single—Current frame only.
Active T ime Segment—The Active Time Segment
(page 3–998)
isthecurrentrangeofframesas
showninthetimeslider.