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iv Contents
Depth of Field with the mental ray Renderer............ 90
Caustic Lighting Effects............................................. 92
Global Illumination with the mental ray Renderer... 93
mental ray Volume Shading ...................................... 95
mental ray Displacement........................ ................... 96
mental ray Contour Shading ............................ ......... 96
mental ray Renderer Rollouts ................................ 98
Sampling Quality Rollout (mental r ay Renderer)..... 98
Camera Effects Rollout (mental ray Renderer)....... 101
Caustics and Global Illumination Rollout
(mental ray Renderer) .......................................... 106
Final Gather Rollout (mental ray Renderer)........... 111
Shadows and Displacement Rollout (mental ray
Renderer).............................................................. 114
Rendering Algorithms Rollout (mental ray
Renderer).............................................................. 116
Translator Options Rollout (mental ray
Renderer).............................................................. 119
Diagnostics Rollout (mental ray Renderer)............ 123
Distributed Bucket Rendering Rollout (mental
ray Renderer)........................................................ 124
Add/Edit DBR Host Dialog..................................... 128
Ray-Trace Acceleration Parameters .................... 129
Ray-Trace Acceleration: Parameters for the BSP
Methods ................................................................ 129
Ray-Trace Acceleration: Parameters for the
Grid Method... ...................................................... 129
VUE File Renderer................................................. 130
VUE File Renderer .................................................. 130
Rendering Elements Separately .......................... 130
Render Elements Panel and Rollout........................ 130
Render Elements Dialog.......................................... 137
Render Element Out put File Dialog........................ 138
Blend Element Parameters Rollout ......................... 140
Hair and Fur Render Element................................. 140
Lighting Texture Element Rollout........................... 141
Matte Textu re Element Rollout ............................... 141
Velocity Element Parameters Rollout...................... 142
Z Element Parameters Rollout ............ .................... 143
Diffuse Texture Element Rollout............................. 143
Rendering to Textures.......................................... 144
Render to Texture.................................................... 144
Baked Texture Elements .......................................... 146
Target Map Slot Assignments.................................. 150
Creating and Using Normal Bump Maps ............... 150
Troubleshooting Normal Bump Maps.................... 151
Render to Textures Dialog ................................... 156
Render to Texture Dialog .................................... .... 156
Render to Texture: General Settings Rollout .......... 157
Render to Texture: Objects to Bake Rollout............ 158
Render to Texture: Output Rollout......................... 160
Render to Texture: Baked Material Rollout ............ 162
Render to Texture: Automatic Mapping Rollout .... 163
Render to Texture: Add Texture Elements Dialog .. 164
Render to Textu re: Projection Options Dialog....... 165
Rendering Previews ............................................. 168
Rendering Previews................................................. 168
Make Preview .......................................................... 168
View Preview ........................................... ................ 170
Rename Preview ........ ....................... ....................... 170
Panorama Exporter .............................................. 170
Panorama Exporter Utility......................... ............. 170
Panorama Exporter Render Setup Dialo g .............. 171
Panorama Exp orter Viewer..................................... 173
Network R ender ing .............................................. 173
Network Rendering ................................................. 173
Basic Procedures for Network Rendering............... 175
How Network Rendering Works................ ............. 180
Starting Network Rendering ................................... 182
Troubleshooting Guide ........................................... 183
Software Setup ..................................................... 186
Setting Up Rendering Soft ware............................... 186
Setting Up Directories............................................. 187
Sharing a Directory ................................................. 188
Mounting a Directory ............................................. 188
Using Configure User Paths .................................... 189
Network Job Assignment ..................................... 190
Network Job Assignment Dialog............................. 190
Job Dependencies Dialog........................................ 196
Notifications Dialog ................................................ 196
Strips Setup Dialog.................................................. 197
Advanced Settings Dialog ....................................... 199
Batch R endering................................................... 201
Batch Rendering ...................................................... 201
Quick Start Batch Rendering .................................. 201
Using Backburner for Batch Rendering .................. 202
Batch Rendering - Batch Render Dialog ................. 203
Batch Render Tool - Batch Render Warning
Dialog.. .................................................................. 208
Command-Line Render ing................................... 209
Command-Line Rendering..................................... 209
Command-Line Rendering Switches...................... 211
Backburner Command Line Control...... ................ 215
18 Effects and Environments .......................217
Effects and Environments ............................. .......... 217
Environment and Effects Dialog............................. 217
Rendering Effects ................................................. 218