Renderer Panel (Render Scene Dialog)

Rendering menu > Render > Render Scene dialog > Render panel

Main toolbar > Render Scene > Render Scene dialog > Renderer panel

The Render Scene dialog's Renderer panel contains the main controls for the active renderer. Depending on which renderer is active, additional panels can become available.

Tip: The default scanline renderer and the mental ray renderer each have their own capabilities. In general, for each scene, you will decide which renderer you want to use. It is a good idea to design materials with a particular renderer in mind. The mental ray Connection rollout lets you add features unique to the mental ray renderer to basic Autodesk VIZ materials.

Interface

When the Default Scanline Renderer Is Active

The Renderer panel contains two rollouts:

Default Scanline Renderer Rollout

Watermark Parameters Rollout

Additional panels are:

• Advanced Lighting Panel

• Raytracer Global Parameters Rollout

• Render Elements panel

When the mental ray Renderer Is Active

The renderer panel contains these rollouts:

Sampling Quality Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

Rendering Algorithms Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

Camera Effects Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

Shadows and Displacement Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

Additional panels are:

• Indirect Illumination panel

  Caustics and Global Illumination Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

  Final Gather Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

• Processing panel

  Translator Options Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

  Diagnostics Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

  Distributed Bucket Rendering Rollout (mental ray Renderer)

When the VUE File Renderer Is Active

The Renderer panel contains a single rollout:

VUE File Renderer