511 Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. Learning Objectives After completing this chapter, you will be able to: ✓ Make advanced rendering settings. ✓ Manage and create render presets. ✓ Save a rendering to an image fi le. ✓ Add a render environment to a scene. In Chapter 16, you learned how to create a view of your scene that is more realistic than a visual style. In that chapter, you used AutoCAD’s sunlight feature to create a simple rendering with mostly default settings. In this chapter, you will discover how to make a rendering look truly realistic, or photorealistic. Some of the advanced rendering features add signifi cantly to the rendering time and you must learn how to balance the quality of the rendering with an acceptable time frame to get the job done. Render Window Render Window By default, a drawing is rendered in the Render window. The Render window allows you to inspect the rendering, save it to a fi le, compare it with previous render- ings, and take note of the statistics. See Figure 19-1. There are two main areas of the Render window—the image pane and the history and statistics pane. Image Pane As AutoCAD processes the scene, the image begins to appear in the image pane in its fi nal form. As discussed in Chapter 16, the rendering is processed over a number of levels. The quality of the image improves as the levels are processed. You can cancel the rendering at any time by pressing [Esc] or picking the Cancel Rendering button at the top of the image pane. Immediately below the image pane is the progress meter. The progress meter displays the progress of the rendering. The current level being processed is shown on the left end of the bar, the percentage of completion is shown in the middle, and the elapsed time is shown on the right end. The rendering is completed when the progress meter reaches 100%. Advanced Rendering CHAPTER 19 19