Predefined Rendering Styles

The Recommended archive contains three predefined rendering styles:

• High Quality. Choose this rendering style for the highest quality rendered output. This includes all reflections and transparencies and anti-aliasing on edges, reflections and shadows. Of the three recommended rendering styles, this will take the longest to render. This is also the rendering style used if no other is chosen. Use this style for the final export of your rendered output.
• Low Quality. Choose this rendering style for a quick, low-quality render. This includes no reflections or anti-aliasing. Use this style if you want to quickly see the affect of materials and lighting you have applied to the scene.
• Medium Quality. Choose this rendering style for a medium-quality render. This includes all reflections and transparencies and anti-aliasing only on shadows. You may use this style for a final preview of the scene, prior to exporting your final rendered output.

The Standard archive contains many rendering styles that simulate hand drawing and other non-photorealistic styles. These styles use a mixture of shaded, vector, and image based rendering techniques. They are generally best suited to small models and small output images.

Note: The Standard rendering styles require multiple stages to render a scene. Therefore, these styles can often take a considerable time to render.

The Templates archive contains five main types of rendering style, which can be used to define your own rendering styles:

• Photorealistic (Raytrace). This archive contains photorealistic rendering styles, including High Quality, Low Quality and Medium Quality like the Recommended archive. These rendering styles are the fastest and use the least memory where large parts of the model are obscured from any particular viewpoint. For example, when inside a room within a building, the walls of the room will obscure the rest of the building from view.
• Photorealistic (Scanline). This archive contains photorealistic rendering styles, including High Quality, Low Quality and Medium Quality like the Recommended archive. These rendering styles are the fastest and use the least memory where most of the model is visible from any particular viewpoint. For example, when rendering an overview of a plant and process model, the majority of the model can be seen as there are fewer walls, or similar, to obscure your view.
• Simple Shaded. This template is a simple, shaded rendering style, where advanced features, such as textures and transparency, are not required.
• Sketch. This archive contains many basic sketch rendering styles.
  Note: Sketch rendering styles require multiple stages to render a scene. Therefore, these styles can often take a considerable time to render.
• Vector. This template is a vector rendering style, which will render the scene in wireframe.