The Render Manager

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Explorer panel (left panel)

Select from the explorer the various render options available for editing. You can edit render options for the scene, for the renderer, and for each pass defined in the scene. Depending on your selection, the options are displayed in the middle or right panel.

The explorer panel also contains some basic Render and Edit commands to help you while working in the render manager.

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Renderer options panel (right panel)

When you select Scene Render Options or one of the global renderers (mental ray, Hardware Renderer, etc.), the options for the selected item are displayed in the right panel.

This is also the case when you select a render pass that contains a set of local render options.

If you select multiple passes (Ctrl-select), each containing a set of local renderer options (of the same type), you can simultaneously edit their common parameters. "Multi Edit" will appear at the top of the panel to indicate that you are in this mode. If your selected passes use different renderers then "Mixed Selection" will appear at the top of the panel and no options are displayed.

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Edit menu button

Use the commands to access additional editing features (as described below):

Edit Override Marked Pass Parameters

Creates an override for marked parameters of the selected render pass. See Overriding Global Renderer Options for a Pass.

Edit > Make Renderer Local to Pass

Creates a local renderer for the selected pass. See Making Renderer Options Local For A Pass.

Edit Make Pass Renderer Global

Resets the local pass renderer to share the global settings. See Making Renderer Options Global For A Pass.

Edit Open Rendering Preferences

See Rendering Preferences [Preference Reference].

Edit Open Output Format Preferences

See Output Format Preferences [Preference Reference].

Edit Copy Render Options

Opens the Copy Render Options tool for multi-pass editing. See Copying Render Options.

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passes

The render options for all the render passes defined in your scene.

The pass render options allow you to modify settings specific to each pass. You can set output paths, specify the pass camera, output your pass to a movie file, apply pass-level shaders, add render channels, and more. For more information about setting pass render options, see Pass Rendering Options.

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Scene Render Options

The scene render options allow you to modify global settings for the entire scene. You can specify things like the renderer to use, the frames to render, the basic output path and format for rendered images. You can also create custom render channels that you can add to individual passes. For more information, see Scene Rendering Options.