Rendering is the process of shading the geometry of your scene. A well set up, polished rendering can be a convincingly realistic image of how a project will appear when it is built. A quicker, less polished rendering can still give you an idea of how colors, lights, and shadows will appear, and provide a “sketch” that you can use for decision making. You can save a rendering as a still-image file. You can also save a rendered animation, either in a movie-file format, or as a series of sequential still images. (For more about animation, see Animating for Design Visualization).
Creating a rendering is a straightforward process. This tutorial demonstrates how to do so. It also introduces you to using radiosity for realistic lighting, and exposure control for adjusting the rendered output.
