Introduction to Rendering

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To view the final results of your work in 3ds Max as a two-dimensional image or movie, you render the scene. By default, when you render, the software produces a still image at a specific resolution using the default scanline renderer, and displays it in a separate window on the screen. But a wide variety of rendering alternatives is available, and this tutorial will introduce you to some of them.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

Render a still image to the screen and to a disk file in different formats and resolutions.
Use different renderers and presets.
Render a high-resolution image using multiple computers.
Render an animation and combine still images into a movie file.
Use a network farm to simultaneously render different images from an animation.
Match photographic backgrounds using the Camera Match utility.
Render a 3D Panorama.
Use rendering to create textures for use in games.

Files for This Tutorial

All the files necessary to do this tutorial can be found on the program disc. Before doing the tutorials, copy the \tutorials\intro_to_rendering directory from the disc to your local program installation.

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