Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 2516

Render Termination Alert group Beep Beeps when the rendering has finished. You can set the frequency and the duration. Play Sound Plays a sound file when the rendering has finished. Choose Sound Opens the Open Sound browser dialog, select a sound file using the browser. You can test sound files with the Play button in the Open Sound dialog. Press ESC to turn off the sound. GBuffer Layers group Maximum Number Limits the number of layers that are stored in the G-buffer during rendering. Default=10; Range=1 to 999. Memory requirements might dictate that you limit the number of G-buffer layers. The RLA and RLF image formats, used for compositing, can store many G-buffers for object Z buffer information, material ID, transparency, and so on. Multi-threading group On Causes the software to treat the rendering task as separate threads. This option works with multiprocessor systems. Each processor in your computer handles a different thread, which makes full use of available processing power and speeds up rendering to its maximum level. When off, 3ds Max treats a rendering task as a single processing task and doesn't divide it up. Bitmap Pager group The Bitmap Pager can help with the rendering of scenes that have very large textures, a large number of textures, or when rendering a high-resolution image. TIP You can access a Bitmap Pager Statistics dialog on page 7150 with useful pager information such as memory usage: Go to Customize menu > Customize User Interface, find the Bitmap Pager Statistics Toggle item in the Main UI list, and then assign it as a keyboard shortcut or other UI element. On When on, the software creates a series of temporary "page" files on the drive where it is installed for use in rendering bitmaps. Page Size (kB) Sets the size of the bitmap page. If textures are smaller than the page size, the system allocates only the memory required. Rendering Preferences | 7771