Rendering > Render Settings

Use Render Settings to adjust the settings that control how the scene renders. Along the top of the Render Settings module is the Presets menu and four tabs, File Output, General Settings, Raytracing Quality, and Display Output.

Once you're finished customizing the render settings, use the Render Summary for a summary of things, such as total renders and files, and more. When finished setting attributes, use the buttons, at the bottom of the module to start image calculations.

Presets

Click Presets to display a menu with the following options for saving, reloading, editing, and restoring default rendering settings.

• Save - Saves the current render settings as a preset. Once saved, the preset will appear in the menu. This option is disabled when Default is enabled. Select a preset or make changes to the current render settings to enable it.

• Save As - Opens the Preset Name dialog for renaming a preset. Once saved, the preset will appear in the menu. This option is disabled when Default is enabled. Select a preset or make changes to the current render settings to enable it.

• Edit - Opens the Edit Presets dialog for activating, renaming or deleting presets.

• Default - Resets the Render Settings to the VRED defaults.

  Note:

  Presets are stored in the following XML file: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\VREDPro\ raytracingtemplates.xml

Render Summary

The Render Summary is at the bottom of the module, just above the Send to Cluster Queue, Add to Render Queue, and Render buttons. Get more contextual information about the render and how long it could take. Get the total number of images and renders.

To Start Image Calculations

Click one of the following button, which appear at the bottom of the module, to start image calculations.

• Send to Cluster Queue - Renders to the Cluster Queue; however, you must be logged into the Cluster Manager before sending anything to the Cluster Queue. See To Manage Cluster Rendering.

• Add to Render Queue - Creates a job from the current camera view and adopts last settings from the render module, after submitting the Render Queue Window opens. Image names cannot be changed, since there are multiple jobs being rendered. A notification appears if rendered images are going to be overwritten.

• Render - Creates the image or movie with current settings. An image's name can be changed during this process.