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The Recommended archive contains three predefined rendering styles:
• High Quality. Choose this rendering style for the highest quality rendered output. This includes all
reflections and transparencies and anti aliasing on edges, reflections and shadows. Of the three
recommended rendering styles, this will take the longest to render. This is also the rendering style
used if no other is chosen. Use this style for the final export of your rendered output.
• Low Quality. Choose this rendering style for a quick, low quality render. This includes no reflections
or anti aliasing. Use this style if you wish to quickly see the affects of materials and lighting you have
applied to the scene.
• Medium Quality. Choose this rendering style for a medium quality render. This includes all reflections
and transparencies and anti aliasing only on shadows. You may use this style for a final preview of the
scene, prior to exporting your final rendered output.
The Standard archive contains twenty three rendering styles that simulate hand drawing and other
non-photorealistic styles. These styles use a mixture of shaded, vector and image based rendering
techniques. They are generally best suited to small models and small output images.
Note:
The Standard rendering styles require multiple stages to render a scene. These can therefore
often take a considerable time to render.
The Templates archive contains five main types of rendering style, which can be used to define your own
rendering styles:
• Photorealistic (Raytrace). This archive contains photorealistic rendering styles, including High
Quality, Low Quality and Medium Quality as per the Recommended archive. These rendering
styles are fastest and use least memory where large parts of the model are obscured from any
particular viewpoint. For example, when inside a room within a building, the walls of the room will
obscure the rest of the building from view.
• Photorealistic (Scanline). This archive contains photorealistic rendering styles, including High
Quality, Low Quality and Medium Quality as per the Recommended archive. These rendering
styles are fastest and use least memory where most of the model is visible from any particular
viewpoint. For example, when rendering an overview of a plant and process model, the majority of the
model can be seen as there are fewer walls, or similar, to obscure your view.
• Simple Shaded. This template is a simple shaded rendering style, where advanced features such as
textures and transparency are not required.
• Sketch. This archive contains twelve basic sketch rendering styles.
Note:
Sketch rendering styles require multiple stages to render a scene. These can therefore often take
a considerable time to render.
• Vector. This template is a vector rendering style, which will render the scene in wireframe.
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