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Getting Started with Maya

> Rendering

>  Lesson 1:  Rendering a scene

Open the scene for the lesson

In this lesson, you render a scene we’ve created for your use.

1. Make sure you’ve done the steps in Preparing for the lessons.
2. Open the scene named Apple.mb.

You can open the scene named Apple.mb from the Maya DVD or from the drive where you copied the Getting Started with Maya data files.

A scene is provided for you containing an apple sitting on a plane, with another plane as the background. A camera in the scene is animated to revolve around the apple at varying distances. (As an alternative to using the scene Apple.mb, you can create a similar scene with your own objects.)

3. Select Window > Settings/Preferences > Preferences.
4. Click the Settings category and make sure the Time option is set to Film (24 fps) so your animation will playback at the default rate of 24 frames per second.
5. Close the Preferences window.

You won’t use the animated camera until later in the lesson. In the next steps, you color the apple and the planes by creating shading materials.