Settings

The Settings tab, which can be accessed by selecting Rendering > Render Setup… from the 3ds Max menu bar, contains advanced controls for Tone Mapping, White Balance, Camera Lens, and Environment Lighting. It also provides options to tailor the use of local and remote Hardware Resources, to access Network Rendering, to add custom MDL search paths, to configure rendering filters, and to specify additional material optimizations:

This page provides an overview of the various settings and links to more details on specific settings.

Tone Mapper

The Tone Mapper enables various controls over the appearance of your scene:

You can use these controls during rendering, without interrupting progress. For details, see Tone Mapping.

Environment Lighting

The Environment Lighting rollout shows which environment is currently lighting the scene and provides a dropdown to let you set or change the currently active environment:

• Active Environment:
• None: Iray will not use any environment in your scene.
• Select: activates the selected environment in 3ds Max, enabling quicker access for editing.

Camera

The Camera rollout provides settings for various types of camera, along with controls for stereo output when viewing with Virtual Reality hardware:

For details, see Camera Settings.

Filters

The Filters rollout lets you specify filters to add bloom and glare effects and to control anti-aliasing:

For details, see Filters.

Network Render

The Network Render rollout provides access to remotely-queued 'offline' rendering:

For details, see Network Render.

Resources

The Resources rollout provides options to control the use of local GPUs and remote streaming resources:

For details, see Remote Streaming.

Materials

The Materials rollout provides optimization controls and the facility to add custom MDL search paths:

• Texture Compression:
• Enable: toggles optimization of texture resolution at render time on or off.
• Disable compression below: specifies a pixel resolution below which to disable texture compression, to limit the optimization for smaller textures.
• Material Override:
• Enable: toggles replacement of all materials in your scene with a single material on or off. This is ideal for creating 'clay' renders.
• Custom MDL:
• MDL Search Paths: click Add... to specify additional paths to custom MDL materials. See Using MDL for details.

Frame Buffer

The Iray+ Frame Buffer can be used instead of the default 3ds Max frame buffer to display both ActiveShade Mode and Production Rendering Mode renders. The Frame Buffer rollout lets you manage deployment of the Iray+ Frame Buffer within 3ds Max:

• Enable for Production Rendering: enables the Iray+ Frame Buffer for Production Rendering Mode.
• Enable for ActiveShade: enables the Iray+ Frame Buffer for ActiveShade Mode.
• Show Previous: opens the Frame Buffer to display or save the previous render results, including Render Elements and Light Path Expression layers.

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