Blender Master Class

The Render Tab

We touched on the Render tab of the Properties editor when we used it to bake textures in Chapter 10. In this chapter, we’ll examine the other settings available in this tab. Many of these depend on which renderer is being used—Blender Internal or Cycles—so we will look at each in turn.

Rendering with Blender Internal

The Render tab in Blender Internal is shown in Figure 14-1. Let’s look at the settings available in each panel.

Render Panel

This contains buttons for rendering your animation and playing back the results.

Image/Animation . These buttons render the current frame (F12) or every frame in the range set by the Frame Range settings in the Dimensions panel as an animation (CTRL-F12). You can play back the rendered ...