The Processing panel is an additional Render Setup dialog panel whose controls relate to managing how the renderer operates. It also lets you generate diagnostic renderings in pseudo color.
Render Setup Dialog > Processing panel
Note: The Processing panel appears only when mental ray is the active renderer.
Interface
Topics in this section
Translator Options Rollout (mental ray Renderer)
Controls in this rollout affect the operation of the mental ray renderer with respect to translation of the scene to the format the renderer requires. They also let you save the translated scene to an MI file, which you can then use with a standalone renderer. The translated output uses the mental ray version 3 (mi3) format. The translator does not support mental ray version 1 (mi1).
Diagnostics Rollout (mental ray Renderer)
The tools on the Diagnostics rollout can help you understand why the mental ray renderer is behaving in a certain way. The Sampling Rate tool, in particular, can help explain the renderer's performance.
Distributed Bucket Rendering Rollout (mental ray Renderer)
Controls on this rollout are for setting up and managed distributed bucket rendering. With distributed rendering, multiple networked systems can work on a mental ray rendering. Buckets are assigned to systems as they become available.