Choosing a renderer

- Rendering is the process of outputting images onto disc,…and you have many choices for rendering in 3ds Max.…Let's take a look at the different renderers…and make a decision about which…we want to use in our production.…Open up the render setup dialogue.…Up at the top you'll see target, production rendering mode,…and from this pull down list you can choose…what different parts of 3ds Max are going to render with.…

So for example if I chose active shade…I could choose to render with the default scanline renderer…or one of these others.…If I go to production rendering mode,…once again, I can choose a renderer…for the production rendering.…Let's take a look at these options here…when I choose renderer.…You'll see we have five options here.…Well the last one here, view file, is not…actually an image renderer at all.…All this does is output a text document…that records the positions of cameras…and objects on each frame.…

So that's not really properly a renderer at all.…The rest of these will output images,…and some of them are hardware renderers…