Rendering parameter files

You may sometimes wish to render all images and animations in a 

parameter file

 to disk. Instead of 

rendering each image separately, you can render the entire parameter file to disk with one 

command.

  Hold down the Add button on the 

Render to Disk

 tool window, and click Add Parameter 

File. Select a parameter file to render in the dialog box that appears, and click Open.

This will open the Render Parameter File to Disk dialog box. Here, you can specify a folder that will 

contain the rendered bitmap images, the 

file format

, the desired size and resolution, and the 

anti 

aliasing

 settings.

You can choose to render all images in the parameter file, or only selected images, or only the 

images that do not yet exist in the destination folder (useful to update a folder that holds the images 

for a parameter file if you have added new parameter sets). 

In addition, you can select if you only want to render the still images or the animations in the 

parameter file, or both. For example, you can render the still images in PNG format and the 

animations in AVI format by rendering the parameter file twice, selecting the Only Stills option the 

first time, and Only Animations the second time, with appropriate file format settings.

Click OK to start rendering the parameter file. This will create a new render job that starts calculating 

the images in the background. Render jobs can be monitored and managed in the Render to Disk 

tool window.

Next: 

Render jobs

See Also

Exporting and rendering

Rendering images

Rendering animations

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