Flair can render either single images or image sequences.

Rendering is done through ImgOutput nodes via their right-click context menu.

The options on the context menu can either show or save the rendered results.

Right-click context menu of an ImgOutput node

• Open render output - Opens a window that shows the rendered image.
• Save image - Saves the image that is connected to the ImgOutput node. The file format needs to be written into the filename and can be .png (default), .jpg or .exr.
• Render sequence - Renders an image sequence from what is connected to the ImgOutput node.

<aside> ☝ As flair currently doesn't have a timeline or the ability to read image sequences, rendering sequences can only be performed in combination with Autodesk Maya.

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Render Settings

The rendering settings are defined through the *Settings* panel (Menu Bar→View→Settings).

The Settings panel shows two groups that are of importance when rendering.

• Image - Defines the properties of the images
• Sequence - Defines the properties of the image sequences.

Please refer to the individual section below for the details of the properties.

Image

Define image-related settings (Menu Bar→View→Settings)

1. Set resolution - Enables/disables a custom rendering resolution. When Flair is connected to a host application (e.g., Maya), the resolution is automatically set by the images imported from that application. Setting the resolution within Flair will override this behavior and guarantee a common working resolution.
   • Width - The custom width used by Flair
   • Height - The custom height used by Flair
2. Quality - Defines the quality of the image.
   • Half - Half the actual resolution
   • Normal - Actual resolution
3. Formats - Configures the image file format.
   1. .exr - OpenEXR images with either zip compression or none.
   2. .png - PNG images with int8 data.
   3. .jpg - JPG images with different compression: 10%-100%

Sequence