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Basics of Rendering
Concept Procedure
 
 
 

To hide or display the render panel of the dashboard

To set the render destination

To render a view

To render a selection set of objects

To render a cropped view

To view shadows in the viewport

To generate shadow mapped shadows in the rendered image

To generate ray-traced shadows in the rendered image