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Using the software renderer for quick renders

Using the software renderer for quick renders - Maya Tutorial

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Using the software renderer for quick renders

In this video we're going to talk a little bit about software rendering using the Maya Software Renderer. During the modeling process, there come times when we have to communicate our current condition with other groups within the organization. There are various ways of doing this, and I want to show you one which is called Maya Software Renderer. So let's go to Render Settings at the very top here. And you'll notice with Maya Software Rendering, we have two options. We have a Common tab, and we have the Maya Software tab. Let's move to the Maya Software tab. I'm going to change the anti-aliasing quality to a high quality. Leave everything else as it is. Let's close this down and let's render. Let's move this window over a fraction. And, you'll notice that the render is actually hard edge, which is exactly what we would expect. Let's select the model. Press number three to smooth and rerender. Again it comes up with a hard edge. So Maya software doesn't honor the smoothing that's…

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