Rendering Tutorials

The lighting tutorials showed you ways in which to render your scene. The tutorials in this section cover additional aspects of rendering: Rendering an animation, how to use Depth-of-Field, and rendering large numbers of low-poly objects and proxies to reduce scene calculation time.

Features Covered in This Section

• Render animations.
• Create a depth-of-field rendering effect.
• Use a particle system to simulate large numbers of similar objects in a scene
• Create mental ray proxy objects and use Object Paint to distribute them across a scene

Topics in this section

• Creating a Shadow Study
  You can animate a Daylight system's time of day. This is a good way to create a shadow study.
• Using the Depth-of-Field Camera Effect
  This tutorial shows how to use the mental ray Depth-of-Field render effect to increase the realism of your renderings.
• Alternative Renderers
  The Quicksilver hardware renderer and the NVIDIA^® iray^® renderer give you alternative ways to render a scene.
• Reducing Complexity in Your Renderings
  When you render a scene, the number of faces in the scene model directly affects rendering time: The greater the number of faces, the longer the rendering takes.