Render an image in a 3D scene

Tips

• Become familiar with the Multi-lister, the Control Window, and the Color Editor. These are the tools you use to create and edit the environment, shaders, textures, and lights.
• Rendering can take a long time. There are, however, several ways you can optimize your scene to minimize rendering times. Make sure you learn about optimization techniques before you begin the rendering process, and even before you begin modeling your scene.

Render a scene

1. Define the appearance of the surroundings for your scene using the environment and textures.
2. Define the surface appearance of objects in your scene using shaders and textures.
3. Illuminate the objects in your scene using lights.
4. Set up the camera to render a particular view of your scene.
5. Preview render your scene to help you visualize how it will look in the final render.
6. Define how individual objects and the overall scene will render using rendering parameters.
7. Render your scene.

Related Concepts

• About environment textures
• About preview rendering
• About scene rendering vs. object rendering
• About types of renderers
• Optimization

Related Tasks

• Map a texture
• Assign or layer a shader
• Create a light
• Open the Multi-lister
• Open the Control Window
• Open the Color Editor
• Open the Camera Editor

Related Reference

• Common rendering problems