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Keyboard shortcut: Spacebar
NOTE The Keyboard Shortcut Override toggle on page 7646 must be on
for the spacebar to toggle the ActiveShade toolbar.
Options quadrant (lower left)
These commands control how the ActiveShade window behaves.
Act Only On Mouse Up When on, changes you make to light and material
parameters (for example, the RGB or Multiplier spinners) update the
ActiveShade window only after you release the mouse. When off, changes to
these parameters are updated immediately, as you drag the mouse. Default=on.
Turning off Act Only On Mouse Up can make the ActiveShade window more
responsive to changes, 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)
Close Closes the ActiveShade window. If the ActiveShade window was docked
in a viewport, the viewport reverts to the view it previously displayed.
Preset Rendering Options
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 on page 5878 .
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.
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