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13. Rendering
 Graphics cards do not affect render speed.
 CINEMA 4D’s render engine supports 16-bit textures.
The Render menu contains all the options you need to render a picture or animation. You can dene
several render presets, such as for preview and for nal rendering. This saves you having to change
the settings one by one each time. Using the render settings, you can also switch on effects such as
multi-pass rendering.
Render Alerts
Missing textures
If CINEMA 4D is unable to nd any textures when you render, an alert will appear. If you choose to
continue rendering, the materials will be used without the missing texture maps. CINEMA 4D searches
for textures in the following locations: in the scene’s folder; in the scene’s ‘Tex’ folder; in CINEMA 4D’s
‘Tex’ folder; in the Texture Paths (and sub-folders) specied in the preferences.
Missing Global Illumination solutions
 Only applies if you are using the Advanced Render module.
Another type of alert may appear when you render if global illumination or caustics is enabled. This
can happen if Save Solution is disabled and Recompute is set to Never on the Global illumination or
Caustics page in the render settings. The alert will appear if there is no saved solution for the scene
in the scene’s ‘Illum’ folder.
Render View
If you want to save the picture or animation, you must render to the Picture Viewer instead using the
Render To Picture Viewer command. If an alert appears when you render, see ‘Render Alerts’, above.
Use this command to render the scene in the active viewport. A render progress bar will appear in
the status bar. To cancel rendering, press Esc or click the mouse button. To access the options that
control rendering, choose Render > Render Settings from the main menu. The render settings are
described later in this chapter.