Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1061

Translator Options Rollout (mental ray Renderer) Rendering menu/main toolbar > Render Setup > Render Setup dialog > Processing panel > Translator Options rollout Note: The Processing panel appears only when the mental ray renderer is the currently active renderer. Controls in this rollout affect the operation of the mental ray renderer with respect to translation of the scene to the format the renderer requires. They also let you save the translated scene to an MI file on page 8044, which you can then use with a standalone renderer. The translated output uses the mental ray version 3 (mi3) format. The translator does not support mental ray version 1 (mi1). See also: ■ Distributed Bucket Rendering Rollout (mental ray Renderer) on page 6326 Procedures To save the mental ray renderer settings: ■ When you have a set of rendering settings you want to keep, go to the Render Setup dialog and open the Preset drop-down list at the bottom. Choose Save Preset (at the bottom of the list), enter a file name, and click Save. Next, use the Select Preset Categories dialog to highlight the parameter categories to store in the preset and click Save. Thereafter you can choose your custom setup from the Preset drop-down list. To create a rendering from multiple passes: 1 Use the Render Type on page 6095 > Selected option to choose only a portion of the scene to render. 2 On the Translator Options rollout, in the Render Passes group, click the ellipsis [...] button next to Save. 3 A Save As dialog is displayed. Use it to enter a name and location for the PASS file. 4 Click Render. The partial rendering is saved in the PASS file you specified. 6316 | Chapter 20 Rendering