Rendering with the Quicksilver hardware renderer

3ds Max 2011 has introduced a brand- new way of rendering a scene using what…it calls the Quicksilver Hardware Renderer, capable of creating near…production quality results ten times faster than when using traditional…rendering techniques.…The Quicksilver Renderer works by using the hardware on your computer's graphics…card that plow through the process of creating high fidelity imagery.…What makes the rendering system even more flexible is that it offers a series…of quality settings that can be adjusted to best meet and match your system's resources.…

Using multiple threaded technology that supports everything from depth of field…to dynamic reflections and indirect lighting effects, the Quicksilver Renderer…will definitely change the way you work in 3ds Max.…Now to show you some of the features, I'm going to be using a file named…Quicksilver Renderer.…Before getting too carried away, it's important to know that in order to take…advantage of the Quicksilver technology, the graphics hardware on your machine…