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mental ray Preferences 867
Radiosity Processing group
Automatica lly Process Refine Iterations Stored in
Geometr ic Objects—
When on, all refine iterations
stored in geometric objects are automatically
processed.
Star t/Reset Behavior
Display R eset Warning—When on, a warning
message is displaye d whenever you reset the
radiosity solution in your scene.
Update Da ta When R equi red on S ta r t—When
on,theradiosityenginemustberesetandthen
recalculated if the solution is invalidated. In this
case, the Start button changes to read Update &
Star t. When this is pressed, the r adiosity solution
is reset and the ca lculation starts over again.
When this toggle is off, the radiosity solution does
not need to be reset if it is invalidated. You can
continue processing your scene with the invalid
solution.
Note: The radiosity s olution is invalidated any t ime
an object or light is added, removed, moved, or
altered in any way.
File Save group
Save Scene Information in MAX f ile (Decreases Load
Time)—
The light levels from the radiosity solution
are always saved with the file, however when this is
on, some additional radiosity information is saved
with your scene.
Note: Having this on decreases file load time, but
increases the file size.
mental ray Preferences
Customize menu > Preferences > m ental ray panel
Interfa ce
General group
Enable mental ray Extensions—When on, enables
certain features that provide additional support for
the mental ray renderer. When off, these features
do not appear in the interface. Default=off.
These are the features enabled as mental ray
extensions to 3ds Max:
•
mental ray Connect ion rollout (page 2–1305)
for materials (Material Editor)
•
mental ray Light Shader rollout (page 2–1189)
(Modify p anel for lights)
Wa rn in g: If you have assigned shaders and adjusted
their settings using the mental ray Connection rollout,
turning off Enable mental ray Extensions will
lose all
these assignments and settings
. The same applies to
light shader assignments.
Rendering group
Show Bra ckets on Cur re nt Bu ck e ts —Displays white
selection brackets at the corners of the bucket
currently being rendered. Default=on.