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Effects Panel and Rollout 219
Render Effects have the added advantage of
allowing animated parameters and references to
scene objects. You can a lso adjust and view the
effects interactively.
Effects Panel and Rollout
Rend ering menu > Effects > Environment and Effects
dialog > Effects panel
You can use the Effects panel to:
• Assign a Render Effects plug-in.
• Apply image processing without using Video
Post.
• Adjust and view effects interactively.
• Animate parameters and references to scene
objects.
Inter face
The Effects panel has one main rollout, Effects,
with the following options:
Effects—Displays a list of selected effects.
Name—Displaysthenameoftheselectedeffect.
Edit this field to rename the effect.
Add—Displays a dialog listing all available
rendering effects. Select the effect you want added
to the window list, and then click OK.
Delete—Removes a highlighted effect from the
window and from the scene.
Active—Specifies whether the selected effect
is active in the scene. On by default; you can
deactivate an effect without actually removing it by
selecting it in the window and turning off Active.
Move Up—Moves the highlighted effect up in the
window list.
Move Down—Moves the high lighted effect down
in the window list.
Merge—Merges rendering effects from scene
(.max) files. Clicking Merge displays a file dialog
from which you can choose a .max file. A dialog
then appears listing all rendering effects in that
scene.
Preview group
Effects—When All is chosen, all of the active
effects are applied to the preview. When Current
is chosen, only the highlighted effects are applied
to the preview.
Interactive—When on, changes occur interactively
in the rendered frame window (page 3–5) as
you adjust the parameters of an effect. When
Interactive is not activated, you can click one of
theupdatebuttonstopreviewtheeffect.
Show Original/Show Effects toggle—Click Show
Original to display the original rendered image
w ithout any of the effects applied. Click Show
Effects to display the rendered image with the
effects.
Update S cene—Updates the rendered frame
window with all changes made in Rendering
Effectsaswellasanychangesmadetothescene
itself.