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Procedures To render in batch mode: You need Windows XP (Home or Professional) Service Pack 1 (or higher) or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4. NOTE Backburner rendering is not supported under Windows 95, 98 or ME. 1 Run the Backburner Manager and Server applications from the Start menu, in the same program group as 3ds Max. 2 Start 3ds Max, and load the first scene you want to batch render. 3 Open the Render Setup dialog and adjust the various rendering parameters for the way you want to render the scene, including active viewport, file output, etc. 4 Turn on Net Render in the Render Output group, and then click Render. 5 In the resulting Network Job Assignment dialog on page 6481, click the Connect button. 6 Click the Submit button. NOTE Each job should have a unique output file name and/or path to avoid overwriting output files. If you get an alert dialog that says, "Another job is using the same output name...," you can click the No button, click Cancel to exit the Network Job Assignment dialog, and then change the output name and/or path. Otherwise, you can click the Yes button and let the job overwrite the frames from the other job in the queue. 7 Load the next scene you want rendered, and then repeat steps 4 through 7. Once you've submitted all rendering jobs, you can exit 3ds Max, if you want. If power is lost before all jobs are rendered (either by accident or by intentional powering down of your computer), when you restart the Backburner Manager and Server programs, the rendering process will resume where it left off. Using Backburner for Batch Rendering Using Backburner for batch rendering is a simple matter of starting the software, running the Backburner Manager and Server programs, specifying 6550 | Chapter 20 Rendering