scanline not using 100% cpu in Max 2012

[tecton3d]

Hey guys,

 

I just installed and am playing with 2012 Design and am confused at the fact that the scanline isn't making use of all of the cores on my machine (4cores - 8ht) when rendering.

 

Is there a way to make use of all cores with scanline?

 

Thanks.

[datacrasher]

Scanline is just the basic render If you switch to mental ray under the rendering dialog box in the common tab slide the hand icon down until you see the assign render hit the plus (+) sign then you can change the render by hitting the three dots next to production by double clicking on MR render this will switch your render to MR then click on ok. Have you the options to do globe l illumination, final gather etc.

[Matt McDonald]

you can check customize - preferences - rendering be sure "multi-threading" is checked but keep in mind, not every portion of the rendering process is multi-threaded.