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Effects Displays a list of selected effects.
Name Displays the name of the selected effect. Edit this field to rename the
effect.
Add Displays a dialog listing all available rendering effects. Select the effect
you want added to the window list, and then click OK.
Delete Removes a highlighted effect from the window and from the scene.
Active Specifies whether the selected effect is active in the scene. On by
default; you can deactivate an effect without actually removing it by selecting
it in the window and turning off Active.
Move Up Moves the highlighted effect up in the window list.
Move Down Moves the highlighted effect down in the window list.
Merge Merges rendering effects from scene (.max) files. Clicking Merge
displays a file dialog from which you can choose a .max file. A dialog then
appears listing all rendering effects in that scene.
Preview group
Effects When All is chosen, all of the active effects are applied to the preview.
When Current is chosen, only the highlighted effects are applied to the
preview.
Interactive When on, changes occur interactively in the
rendered frame
window
on page 5885 as you adjust the parameters of an effect. When Interactive
is not activated, you can click one of the update buttons to preview the effect.
Show Original/Show Effects toggle Click Show Original to display the
original rendered image without any of the effects applied. Click Show Effects
to display the rendered image with the effects.
Update Scene Updates the rendered frame window with all changes made
in Rendering Effects as well as any changes made to the scene itself.
Update Effect Manually updates the preview rendered frame window when
Interactive is not on. What is shown in the rendered frame window is only
an update of any changes made in Rendering Effects. Any changes made to
the scene itself will not be rendered.
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