Diving Straight into Photographic Rendering - Photographic Rendering with V-Ray for SketchUp - page 36

Render settings for final output
Now, it's time to set up our final render output settings. These should ideally be dealt
with as the very last step in the production process because once these are in place,
the time required to complete each of the renders will increase quite dramatically.
Note
Bear in mind that we are referring to image sampling and final resolution settings
here. Important composition elements such as the final aspect ratio for our images
would need to be set up much earlier in the process.
At this point, we could increase the quality of our indirect illumination solution by up-
ping the parameter values that we worked with earlier. In this instance though, I am
going to stick with what we have as they seem to be doing a fairly decent job for us.
Tip
It is, generally speaking, a bad idea to increase values just because we can . Un-
less there will be a visible improvement to the finished render, we will simply be
increasing our render time for no apparent reason.
Let's go ahead and tackle our output image resolution first of all. In this instance, I am
going to render out at full HD resolution, which means (at the time of writing) render-
ing is done at 1920 x 1080.
To set this up, we can perform the following steps:
1. Open up the option editor by clicking on the button on the toolbar.
2. Go into the Output rollout and set the width and height values to 1920 x 1080.
3. In the Render Output section, put a check in the Save Output box. Then, us-
ing the output file button next to the naming field, browse to the location where
you want to save your image, such as the Exercise_Files folder that we
have been working with.