FAQ

Batch Render This is the trick to make sure you do not tie up your computer when you want to be using it. After you have assigned the lights, cameras, models and textures, and you have used the Render Bitmap tool to check everything, you can set up batch render…

Render Bitmap tool Adding extra lights makes rendering slower. If you add bluriness to a texture, it will make the rendering take longer as well. This has the effect of locking up your computer for 10 or 20 minutes at a time. This is not a great use of your…

Renderworks Style A Renderworks Style is a way of creating a saved set of rendering preferences, in a way that you can recall these when needed or store them in the library so that you can access these preferences in any project. A Renderworks Style is a resource that is…

Custom Renderworks This is the rendering option you should use if you want to have the highest quality. This rendering method offers a lot of flexibility, more than any other rendering method. It allows you to control all aspects of the quality allowing you to balance quality with the time…

Final Quality Renderworks Some people think that this is the best rendering you can get. It is a high quality rendering, but Custom Renderworks can give better results because it has access to more choices. With Final Quality Renderworks you get great quality, but there are no options to play…

Fast Renderworks I hardly ever use this rendering mode. It is a step up from OpenGL, and there are no options to choose from, but it offers a shadow option. Remember, you have to have a light source to get shadows.

OpenGL OpenGL rendering is fast and of a reasonable quality, but it is not the best quality. I sometimes call it quick and dirty, because it is one of the fastest rendering modes, but it is not the most accurate.