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>The Unified Renderer</H1
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>A less well known feature of Blender is the Unified Renderer button
	in the bottom right corner of the Rendering Buttons 
	<TT
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>Figure 35. The Unified Renderer button.</B
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>&#13;		Blender's <I
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>default</I
> renderer is highly optimized for speed. This
		has been achieved by subdividing the rendering process into several passes.
		First the 'normal' materials are handled. Then Materials with transparency (Alpha)
		are taken into account. Finally Halos and flares are added.
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>&#13;		This is fast, but can lead to less than optimum results, especially with Halos.
		The Unified Renderer, on the other hand, renders the image in a single pass.
		This is slower, but gives better results, especially for Halos.
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>&#13;		Furthermore, since transparent materials are now rendered together with the
		conventional ones, Cartoon Edges can be applied to them too, by pressing
		the <TT
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>All</TT
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>&#13;		If the Unified Renderer is selected an additional group of buttons
		appears in the <TT
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>Output</TT
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>Figure 36. Unified Renderer additional buttons.</B
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>&#13;		The <TT
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>Gamma</TT
> slider is related to the OSA procedure.
		Pixel oversamples are blended to generate the final rendered pixel. The conventional
		renderer has a Gamma=1, but in the Unified Renderer you can vary this number.
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>&#13;		The <TT
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>Post process</TT
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		button makes a dialog box appear (<A
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		From this you can control three kinds of post processing: the <TT
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		slider defines a constant quantity to be added to the RGB colour value of each pixel.
		Positive values make the image uniformly brighter, negative uniformly darker.
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>Figure 37. Unified Renderer postprocess submenu.</B
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>&#13;		The <TT
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>Mul</TT
> slider defines a value by which all RGB values of all pixels are
		multiplied. Values greater than 1 make the image brighter, smaller than 1 make the
		image darker.
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		The <TT
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