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Understanding Render Setup

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Understanding Render Setup

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- [Instructor] As your renders get more complex, you may need to manage them a little bit more precisely. And in Maya, we can do that using the render setup window. We can find that here, next to the hypershade icon in the main toolbar, or under windows, rendering editors, render setup. Now, by default, this window really doesn't have much in it. All it has is a default layer, which is called scene. And this is everything that we have in our scene. Now, if I look into my outliner here, you'll see that I have a number of lights and objects in the scene. Render setup allows us to create layers, and we can do that here. So when we create a layer, we can add objects to it and then modify those to change the way that the scene renders. Now, we can see which layer is active by clicking on this I icon. And so if we click on our new layer, you'll see that we have, well, nothing in it. Well, we can change that by adding what's called a collection, and a collection really is just a list of…

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