If a scene is animated, of course, the process can
yield anywhere from hundreds to millions of rendered frames.
Inside LightWave v9 80
Figure 2.45 The Utilities tab is home
to command tools, LScript programming
tools, and plug-in tools.
Chapter 2 LightWave v9 Layout 81
In earlier versions of LightWave, rendering
tools were sort of hidden??”kind of unusual
for something so critical to the 3D animation
process. If you are a veteran user of
LightWave, you??™ll love the new Render menu
tab (Figure 2.46). When it??™s time to render,
LightWave v9 put the tools you need right in
front of you.
Options
The Options tool category houses the Render
Globals menu button, where you??™ll find tools
for setting up all of your animation characteristics.
Use this panel to set camera resolution
for single-frame renders, arbitrary renders,
and full-frame animations.You can also set filtering
methods, global illumination, and more, all from
this one panel (Figure 2.47). You??™ll work through
this panel and see how to render locally and over a
network in Chapter 15, ???Advanced Cameras and
Rendering.??? This category also is where you??™ll find
the Enable VIPER button.
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