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The position of these handles and the corresponding colors affect the
location and breadth of the color within the gradient on the apples
surface.
11 Save your work.
In the next section you render your scene to view the textures and
materials youve assigned to the objects.
Maya renderers
So far, youve seen the results of shading the apple and other surfaces in the
scene view. In this view, Maya uses your computers graphics hardware to
display the shading and textures quickly but with low quality.
To view the shading results of the colors and textures in a more realistic
fashion, you must use a renderer. In this lesson you use a process called software
rendering.
Software rendering can take seconds or minutes to render a single frame of
animation from your scene, depending on the complexity of surface geometry,
shaders, lighting and other visual elements present in the scene.
The following table outlines the different types of renderers in Maya and what
each is used for:
UseRenderer
A general purpose renderer with broad
capabilities. You can produce high-quality
Mayas Software renderer
images with complex shading networks,
including procedural textures and ramps.
Software rendering is computed through
your machines processor.
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