Renderer Plug-ins

• Overview
  • What is a render plug-in?
  • Advertising render methods to start a render process
    • Batch rendering
    • Launching render methods in the UI
  • Starting a render
  • Key stages of the render process
  • Processing the Katana recipe and utility classes
    • Scene graph delegates
    • Scene graph utility classes
  • Disk Render: Rendering one or more render outputs to disk
  • Preview Render: Rendering directly to Katana’s Monitor tab
  • Generating a render debug output
    • Advertising debug output support
    • Creating a debug output in the render plug-in
  • Setting the plug-in as the default renderer in Katana
  • Linking the plug-in to its corresponding renderer info plug-in
  • Adding configuration nodes
    • Configuring global settings (<rendererName>GlobalStatements)
    • Configuring object settings (<rendererName>Statements)
  • Sending ID pass data to Katana
  • Setting the number of render threads
  • Customizing the Network Material Group Context Layered Menu
• Render API
• Profiling Mock Renderer