The Renderer is the module that creates the photographic images of models built in the Designer and the animated sequence of images as directed in the Animator.
Rendering can be a time consuming process that is very dependent on the size image being produced and the complexity of the Actor's costumes. Rendering is by default a Scanline Phong renderer. Various levels of Ray tracing can be enabled in the Tracing tab page. Phong rendering is suggested in most cases since ray tracing is notoriously memory and time intensive.
Select the desired settings in the Control, Options, Settings, and Tracing tab pages of the Renderer dialog. Press the Render button at the bottom of the Renderer dialog to start rendering. Note that test renders be done quicker using the File > Quick Render (F12).
The renderer is multi-threaded and will benefit greatly if additional processors are installed in the system. Rendering on a two processor system will almost be twice as fast as with one processor.
The Renderer module can be used in a mode (called the Script Renderer) that does not need either the Animate or Design modules to be loaded. The Script Renderer may also be run on several others PCs at the same time.