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You can save an edited rendering style for use in other scenes by simply dragging it onto the My Render Styles
user archive.
Predefined Rendering Styles
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.
Auto Exposure
Select the Auto Exposure check box to render the scene with balanced brightness and contrast. This is essential
when using physically accurate lighting, such as a Sky or Sun light. If adding either of these lights to your scene,
you will be prompted to turn Auto Exposure on, if it is not already.
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