Renderers
As we all know, rendering is the final step in order to make a production, so it's a pretty huge thing. The defualt renderer in 3ds max is what we called the "Scanline" renderer.
Scanline renderer basicily renders the image like a line scaning through a page. However, most renderers already quit that type of rendering because it's slow. Renderers like Mental Ray choosed another why to render which divide the image into several boxes and then render each box. This way is faster becausewhen rendering a box, the renderer would only have to calculate the box, not the entire image.
Here is a list of the most popular renderers:
Mental Ray
Brazil r/s
V-Ray
Final Render
Max well
These renderers are quite different between each other and also have their own advantages through out different things. Let me talk about that in the next article.