completley hidden-but still renders

[ntanium]

There is a flag in the Render -> Common window that says "Render hidden geometry"

[cdinic]

I guess that'd work.. but what if I have other stuff hidden, that needs to stay hidden, like some ref objects, or ground plane...

I can think of a million situations that having a "viewable only at render time" option would be very help full.

-Chris

[jlelievre]

Can't you just put your cards on a seperate layer that you just turn on at render time? :)

[cdinic]

I dont' want to have to turn it on before I render each time.. and layers suck in MAX...

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[jlelievre]

..just a sidenote...yes I'm not a big fan of the layers in Max either. :P But if you use the Onion Layering script from blur it's a whole heck of a lot easier. :)

[ntanium]

Originally posted by Intrinsia
..just a sidenote...yes I'm not a big fan of the layers in Max either. :P But if you use the Onion Layering script from blur it's a whole heck of a lot easier. :)

Do you have a link to this? It sounds very cool, I did a quick google search but came up with nothing. :hmm:

[jlelievre]

Blur's The Onion (http://www.blur.com/Tech/zip/theonion.zip)

Rezn8's Layer Manager (http://www.rezn8.com/gearhead/freeware/LM3.zip)

Both are pretty similar although the Onion has more options.

note: both are direct links to D/L a zip file

[CapnPanic]

another option may be to make them transparent. by default this is Alt-X, so select your cards, hit alt-x and they should go transparent, making them less obtrusive, but still there.

and yes, The Onion rocks.

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