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New menu items used in this tutorial
■ Window Display > Hardware Shade
■ Render > Globals
■ Render > Multi-lister > List shaders
Overview
After you have created objects, lights, and shaders, you can bring these
elements together in the final rendering process. Alias offers industry standard
sizes and types of rendering with adjustable quality levels. Generally, the better
the rendering quality required, the longer the renderer takes.
The rendering pipeline
The rendering process requires that you set up surfaces, cameras, lights, and
any animation channels that may have been used in the scene. When a
rendering is executed, all of the information about the scene is either streamed
directly to the renderer for immediate rendering, or it is exported to a special
file called the SDL file (Scene Description Language). This file can be
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