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Render setting and scene setup

Render setting and scene setup - Rhino for Mac Tutorial

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Render setting and scene setup

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- Rendering is a process that combines the objects in a Rhino file with simulated lights and simulated materials to produce digital images. Now, the rendering process can be just as sophisticated as the modeling process. It's definitely an art form all on it's own, and if you want to, you can spend just as much time setting up renders as you do building your models. And here we've got a few different objects that we've worked with in previous videos so, I have a revolved surface here, I have this solid surface that we worked on as well as this one, and then a mesh that I did from a 3D scan. So we can find the render commands in Rhino under the Render menu. And here we can do things like activate a Render Preview or a full-on Render. We can set up different kinds of lights as well as adjust the Materials that are applied to our Rhino objects. We can also set the Current Renderer and for now the built-in Rhino Renderer is our only option. There are other more sophisticated plug-ins out…

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