Create renderings

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Create renderings.

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After completing this video,

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you'll be able to

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produce a rendered image and produce a turntable render.

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In fusion,

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we want to carry on with our quadcopter render.

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F3D.

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At this point,

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we've modified the nylon appearance,

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made sure that the decals are OK,

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and we've set up a render scene.

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If we want to make any final adjustments,

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for example,

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making the scene background a bit lighter,

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or using an environment,

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now is the time for us to do so.

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At this point,

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what we want to do is we want to go in and produce some rendered images.

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We can do this a few different ways.

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We can use the in canvas render,

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which will do some on-screen ray tracing.

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This is going to use the computer's processing power,

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so this happens locally on your machine.

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If you happen to rotate at all during this process,

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this is going to automatically reset your progress.

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You can increase the amount of iterations that you go through,

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allowing it to calculate and work through the

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process longer to get a better final result.

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At any point in time,

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you can also pause.

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I'm gonna select stop in canvas render and take a quick look at the settings.

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So inside of our settings,

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we have fast and we have advanced.

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We also have this option to lock view.

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Lock view will prevent you from rotating the

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model while an in-caus render is happening.

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In general,

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in canvas renders are done just to get an idea of what your

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environment will look like and what the final materials will look like.

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When you're ready to produce a rendered image,

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you'll go to the render option.

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This can be done either locally or on the cloud.

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Keep in mind that certain aspect ratios and

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settings will require you to use flex tokens,

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and when we get to do a turntable animation,

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we'll have to also pay attention to Flex token usage.

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You can always do a local render,

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but that will use your machine's processing.

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In this case,

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we're gonna do cloud render with these

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default settings and we're gonna select render.

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This is going to automatically process this on the cloud,

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and we can see that it's currently being processed in

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the bottom left-hand corner inside of our rendering gallery.

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Generally,

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this process will take 1 to 2 minutes,

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but depending on the server load,

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this could take a bit longer.

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And if we do this with a local render,

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we can select the local option

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and we can also toggle and change our quality settings.

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You can increase the quality settings based on your system's resources.

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If you've got a system with a good graphics card and a fast CPU,

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you may find that you want to use higher render quality.

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Since we were under the same view twice,

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you can see a small 2 in the upper right hand corner.

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If we expand this,

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we can see that we've got one render complete,

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and we've got one render that's still being processed.

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The render that's complete is the local render.

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This happened a bit quicker than the cloud render did.

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And again,

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this depends on your system resources,

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what you currently have processing,

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and if your system is up to the task of producing those rendered images.

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If we take a look,

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both these renders should be identical with no noticeable difference.

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You can see there is a slight size difference in the frame,

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but other than that,

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everything does appear to be identical.

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The next thing that we want to talk about is what's called a turntable render.

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There are a couple of ways that we can get a rendered animation infusion.

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Unfortunately,

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we aren't able to render from the animation workspace,

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but if we were to create a motion study inside the design workspace,

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we could also render that here.

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But in this case,

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we want to take a look at rendering a turntable.

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A turntable render is only available after a local single

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render or a cloud single render has been processed.

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There are two options for the number of frames,

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and depending on your settings,

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you may be required to use flex tokens.

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You'll find that if you use a smaller size,

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you can oftentimes create a 6 frame turntable

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animation without the use of Flex tokens.

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But if we go to 36,

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that will require you to use Flex tokens.

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In this case,

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we're gonna do a small image size with 6 frames and select render.

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What this will allow us to do is produce 6 individual

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rendered frames that will be stitched together in an animation.

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This can be downloaded as an animation file,

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it can also be downloaded as an HTML

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that you could use on a website.

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Once the turntable render has been completed,

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we can see it down here in our rendering gallery.

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It has a different icon based on the fact that it is a turntable animation.

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When we select it,

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we'll get a preview showing the 6 different views going around our object.

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Now,

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in this case,

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if we decide to download this,

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it can be again as an HTML viewer,

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as a video or as a zip file.

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If you want to download one of your rendered images,

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this can be done as well,

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and this does give you a couple of different options.

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We can do a PNG file,

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and we also do have some options to do some image post processing.

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Keep in mind that the only time this is available is if it was a cloud render.

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This render here was done locally,

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but if I go to the cloud render,

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I am able to do some basic post processing.

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We can do things like change the exposure value,

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We can use some presets,

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we can modify the saturation.

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And we can toggle on and off some of

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the options like color preserving and color correction.

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I'm also gonna increase the bloom amount

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and the bloom width multiplier,

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and we're gonna take up the exposure value

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and bring down the saturation.

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Making some changes like this will give you another image

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that can be downloaded and saved without modifying the original.

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All of these images can be downloaded,

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but you will have more options if you are using a cloud render.

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For example,

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we can enable transparent background and download a TIF or a PNG file.

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It's important to play around with the various options

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that you have when working inside the render workspace,

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but for the certification,

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make sure you understand the basics of scene setup,

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applying appearances,

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modifying things like texture map control,

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and how you can create rendered images as well as a turntable animation.

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When you start a rendered image,

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this will automatically save a version of your design.

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You can see in the bottom right hand corner of each of these rendered images,

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they're all done with V4.

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If you were to make changes to your design,

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you also have the ability to drag and process

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the render on save in the left hand corner.

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This means that every time you save your design,

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it'll recalculate that rendered image for you based on those updated changes.

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It'll use the same view,

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but if you make any changes to appearances and materials or the design itself,

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those will be updated.

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At this point,

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let's go ahead and make sure that everything is saved

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if you made any final changes before moving on.