Rendering Menu

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Render View
Render Active Object
Render Region
Render To Picture Viewer
Batch Rendering
Make Preview
Render Settings
New Render Settings
Delete Render Settings
Flush Illumination Caches
Bake Texture
Bake Object
File Formats Used
HDR Cross/Probe Convert
IRRegion

The Render menu contains all the options you need to render a picture or animation. You can define several render presets, such as for preview and for final rendering. This saves you having to change the settings one by one each time. Using the render settings, you can also switch on effects such as multi-pass rendering.

Graphics cards do not affect render speed.

Render Alerts

Missing textures

If CINEMA 4D is unable to find any textures when you render, an alert will appear. If you choose to continue rendering, the materials will be used without the missing texture maps.

CINEMA 4D searches for textures in these specific locations.

Missing Global Illumination solutions

Only applies if you are using the Advanced Render module.

Another type of alert may appear when you render if global illumination or caustics is enabled. This can happen if Save Solution is disabled and Recompute is set to Never on the Global illumination or Caustics page in the render settings.

The alert will appear if there is no saved solution for the scene in the scene’s Illum folder.