Interactive Ray Tracing

Click the appropriate ray tracing command.

Stellar starts ray tracing in local mode using compute resources from the local machine.
Distributed Stellar establishes a connection to the cluster specified in the Preferences, and rendering starts. You also need to install and start the cluster.

Click Stellar Rendering Log

to display rendering information.

To use a preset or to define advanced settings, do one of the following:

From the Live Rendering section of the action bar, click Options , and then use the Stellar area.
Access the Visual Quality panel.
Access the Ray Tracing preferences.

Important:

Prefer the use of the Stellar options or the Visual Quality panel, unless you want to override a specific setting for all widgets.

To specify your own values for each setting, use the sliders, the lists, or the boxes as required.

To save your customized settings in a dedicated user preset, click Save Preset

.

To remove a user preset, make sure it is active, click

, and then click OK to confirm.