Alrighty I am just practicing random stuf on A:M to better familiarize myself with it.

So I came across some rendering questions.

1: For real time rendering...Whatis it and how does it work? I can't find it in my help files or in the forums search engine and when I tried rendering in it it gave me an error I can't recall at the moment....A friend suggested it may be used for making video games or something but neither one of us know if that is accurate or not.

2: Toon rendering I have two question ne is something I tried experimenting with and failed, but is there a way to import a real pic of someone and then render it as a toon? I trie and everything else in my chor would renderas a toon but the .jpg would not..Which is both good and bad...Good because you can think of of cool ways to apply this to toon rendering. Bad because I wanted it to render as a toon...Mainly just to see what me and my girlfriend would look like if we we're toon rendered.

3: I keep hearing people talk about changing the toon rendering options but am not sure how to. Is it just in property of the model that toon rendering is affecting you know where you pick the line color and line thickness?

1. When rendering out your animation change your render mode from Final to Shaded or Shaded + Wireframe. This will use your video cards real-time renderer to spit out the frames. It's a lot faster than a Final pass, but looks nowhere near as good. But if you just need to see how something moves, it's great.

2. No the toon shader doesnt affect pictures like that, sorry.

3. You can set toon options in 3 places.

-The toon model properties, where the entire model is affected.
-A models Group properties
-The Toon Render option in your camera properties/render window. If you turn the overrides on here they overwrite any toon settings you may have set in your model or group properties.

But no matter where you set your toon options, they wont render unless it's turned ON in your camera properties/render window.

Hey thanks for the help Kricket I appreciate it.