This chapter of 3ds Max 2015 Essentials covers rendering in 3ds Max, including navigating the Rendering Setup dialog, rendering scenes, working with cameras, and raytraced reflections and refractions. Key topics are setting up rendering with the common tab, assigning renderers, creating and using cameras, enabling raytracing for reflections, and replacing reflection materials with raytraced reflections when rendering interiors with furniture.

1. 3ds Max 2015 Essentials
Chapter 15: 3ds Max Rendering

2. 3ds Max topics covered in this
chapter include the following:
• Navigate the Rendering Setup dialog
• Render a scene
• Work with Cameras
• Raytraced Reflections and Refractions
• Render the interior and furniture
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3. Rendering Setup
• Render Scene Dialog
Box
– Common Tab
allows you to setup
all the common
needs for a render
• Image File Types
– Image Channels
• Always set your
image filenames to
correspond with your
original scene
filename
• Assigning a Renderer
• Rendering the
Bouncing Ball scene
• Render Quality –
Antialiasing and
Filters
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4. Cameras
• Capture and output the action
in your scene when rendered
• Cameras give a sense of
perspective crucial to a
scene
• Creating a camera
– Target Cameras
– Free Cameras
• Using Cameras
– Lens and Focal Length
• Animating a camera
• Clipping Planes
• Safe Frame
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5. Raytraced Reflections and Refractions
• Raytracing enables true
reflections in a scene, so
scene objects reflect in
each other
• Refraction is the distortion
of an object as seen
through a transparent
surface, such as glass
• Raytrace Material
• Raytrace Mapping
• Rendering Refractions
– Raytrace material
– Raytrace Mapping 5

6. Render the Interior and Furniture
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• Replace materials
with Reflections with
Raytraced
Reflections
• Render the results

7. Render the Interior and Furniture
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• Replace materials
with Reflections with
Raytraced
Reflections
• Render the results