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Adding fur shadowing attributes to lights

Lesson 2: Rendering fur

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Rendering the scene

To see the fur in full detail, you need to render an image of the scene.

To render the scene

1. Select Window > Rendering Editors > Render Settings to show the Render Settings window.
2. Ensure that Render Using is set to Maya Software in the drop-down list.
3. From the Render Settings window menu, select Presets > Load Preset > Default Settings.

   This sets the renderer to render an image that is 640 by 480 pixels in size; large enough to see the fine detail on the fur.

4. Close the Render Settings window.
5. To render the fur, do one of the following:
   • Select Render > Render Current Frame.
   • Click the Render Current Frame button in the Status Line.

     

   The Render View window appears and an image of the scene is rendered.

   

At this point, you can modify any of the light attributes, or fur attributes as required and render the scene again.