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Chapter 24. Rendering Scenes
While the OpenGL rendering in the main navigation window is adequate for interactive walkthrough and
previewing renders, you will no doubt want to render your scenes and animations with full photorealistic
rendering at some point. You can render directly into the main window by simply clicking on the Render
button at the bottom of the Presenter control bar at any time. The following procedures is an overview of
how to do this:
24.1. Setting Up And Rendering A Scene
1. Drag and drop materials onto items in the model. You can use the pre-defined materials, or create
your own from the templates in the Materials tab (see Chapter 25, Presenter Materials for more
details on how to do this).
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2. Use the Rules tab to set up rules which define project-wide material application (see Chapter 31,
Presenter Rules for more details on this).
3. Use the Texture Space tab to more accurately map materials onto items in the scene (see
Chapter 30, Texture Space for more details on this).
4. Set up additional lighting using the Lighting tab (see Chapter 26, Presenter Lighting for more details
on how to do this).
5. Background and foreground effects can be added to the scene with the Effects tab (see Chapter 28,
Rendering Effects for more details on these).
6. Use the Rendering tab to select a rendering style for the render (see Chapter 29, Rendering Styles
for more details on these).
7. At any point, you can click on the Render button to start JetStream Presenter rendering the scene in
the main navigation window. The rendering process can be stopped at any point by clicking on the
Stop button.
8. Click on the Clear button to clear the render in the main navigation window and return to an OpenGL
interactive view.
24.2. Exporting Rendered Output
If you want to save the rendered scene to a file or printer, you have to render directly to it. The following
procedure describes how to do this:
Exporting a rendered image
1. With the scene set up as you wish (see Section 24.1, “ Setting Up And Rendering A Scene ”), go to
File, Export, Rendered Image.
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