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Render settings

Render settings - Maya Tutorial

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Render settings

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- [Instructor] Now let's move on to rendering in Arnold. Arnold is the professional quality render that is included with Maya. Now, rendering is essentially just adding light to the scene and calculating how that light affects the scene. It's the equivalent of photography. Now, when we simulate light in the scene we do this using Arnold's render settings. So let's take a look at the render settings for Arnold. So we can understand that before we actually dive into setting things up. So I'm going to open the render settings window and we have a couple of tabs. Now we have the common tab which allows me to do things such as set the image format as well as the file name. We can set up things such as a frame range, if we want to. Now, in order to do that we need to change the frame animation extension here. So by default, it's on a single frame but we can change it to any of these formats here. And that will light up this…

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