Rendering Setup

Your render settings and what final decisions you make about your 3ds Max scene ultimately determine how your work will look. If you create models and textures with the final image in mind and gear the lighting toward elegantly showing off the scene, the final touches will be relatively easy to set up.

The Render Setup dialog box is where you define your render output for 3ds Max. You can open this dialog box by clicking the Render Setup icon ( i1501.tif ) in the Main toolbar, by selecting Rendering Render Setup, or by pressing F10. You’ve already seen how to render ( ) a frame in your scene to check your work. The settings in the Render ...

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