Rendering

Getting started

• Rendering an image
• Setting up a render node
• Render viewer pane
• Rendering FAQ

Next steps

• Understanding mantra rendering

  Background information about how mantra works.
• Render quality and improving render time
• Depth of field
• Motion blur
• Rendering particles
• Setting up physically based rendering
• Volumetric rendering
• Procedural shaders
• Rendering subdivision surfaces
• Camera tips
• Cubic environment maps

Rendering in a pipeline

• Batch rendering
• Control dependencies between renders
• Rendering from the command line
• Rendering on the network

Guru-level

• Properties

  Properties let you set up flexible and powerful hierarchies of rendering, shading, lighting, and camera parameters.
• Rendering extra image planes (deep rasters)
• Rendering with a large number of polygons
• Rendering attributes
• Expressions in filenames
• Image 3D files
• Advanced dicing control
• IFD file format
• SOHO
• Using Python in mantra renders

Other renderers

• Rendering with RenderMan
• How to use AIR

• Deep shadow maps and Deep camera maps