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Rendering "fi lls in" geometry with color, shadow, lighting

effects, and so on.

Rendering shades the scene’s geometry using the

lighting you ’ve set up, the materials you’ve applied,

and environment settings, such as backg round

and atmosphere. You use the Render Scene dialog

(page 3–2) to create renderings and sa ve them to

files. Renderings are also displayed on the screen,

in a rendered frame w indow (page 3–5).

Tip: When you render a very large image, you might

get a message that says “Error Creating Bitmap,”

or that says you are out of RAM. If this happens,

turn on the Bitmap Pager. You turn on the Bitmap

Pager in Rendering Prefere nces (page 3–826).The

Bitmap Pager prevents a rendering from hanging

because of ove ruse of memory. On the other hand,

it slows dow n the rendering process.

Note: 3ds Max does not append any color-space

information to rendered output. If necessary, you

can apply a color space such as sRGB to output

images in an image-editing program like Adobe

Photoshop.

Environments and R endering Effects

A variet y of special effects, such as film gr ain,

depth of field, and lens simulations, are available

as rendering effects. Another set of effects, such as

fog, are provided as environment effects.

Environment settings (page 3–272) let you choose a

backgroundcolororimage,orchooseanambient

colorvalueforwhenyourenderwithoutusing

radiosity. One category of environment settings is

the exposure controls (page 3–293),whichadjust

light levels for display on a monitor.

Rendering effects (page 3–218) provide a way for

youtoaddblurorfilmgraintoarendering,orto

adjust its color balance.