weird camera issues

[JDex]

Did you somehow put keyframes on the camera's attributes?

[toonafish]

nope, no keyframes on any camera afaik. Restarted XSI, loaded the scene, checked all the settings, render > preview > active camera, bam...back to a frame aspect of 1.2.
I also noticed that the viewport changes when I render a preview, and jumps back when I close the preview window.

I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what.

If you want to take a peek, I've replaced the objects with a sphere and uploaded the scene here (http://www.toonafish.nl/clients/cameratest.zip)
If you load the scene all the settings should be set to 640x480, frame aspect 1.333. pixel aspect 1. And when you render a preview you'll probably get a squashed sphere.

thanks.

[toonafish]

I re installed 5.11. Set the output format in the preferences to 640x480 etc. Then started a new scene, checked Camera and Render settings, created a sphere, rendered a preview and I still get a squashed sphere.

Now when I have the preview window open, the camera settings have changed to a frame aspect of 1.2. But when I close the preview window it changes back to 1.333

what makes this happen ?? I looked around for any hidden camera setting but I can't find anything.

anyone ??

[JDex]

Sorry I can't check your scene... laptop is down for repair, so no XSI at my fingertips... but if it's set to a Pixel Ratio of 1 and it's snapping back to a rectangle aspect ratio, there's some glitch IMHO.

Make a new camera...
delete the old one...
Make a new empty pass...
delete the old one...
Set the settings again and try again.

[grahamef]

Choose Render > Preview > Options, and make sure that Render Settings is set to Use Current Pass Render Settings.

[toonafish]

Sorry I can't check your scene... laptop is down for repair, so no XSI at my fingertips... but if it's set to a Pixel Ratio of 1 and it's snapping back to a rectangle aspect ratio, there's some glitch IMHO.

Make a new camera...
delete the old one...
Make a new empty pass...
delete the old one...
Set the settings again and try again.


thanks, but like I said. I re-installed, created a new scene..bla bla bla...same difference.

Been staring at this for the past couple of hours...it's either a bug or my brain isn't working, probably the latter. I'm giving up for now.

If anyone that's more experienced in xsi would like to take a look at the scene in the link above, I'd be very gratefull.

thanks.

[toonafish]

Choose Render > Preview > Options, and make sure that Render Settings is set to Use Current Pass Render Settings.

thanks, literaly every setting is set to 640x480, frame aspect 1.333, pixel aspect 1.

I'm a xsi noob, so I don't know where to look anymore.

[toonafish]

ha ! Just opened up all the panels that are related to the camera settings in a final attempt to find the problem and found out that changing the Frame Preview settings to "use current pass settings" instead of "use render region settings" made the preview go back to a normal frame aspect ratio.

little weird, the render region is also set to 640x480 and there's no frame aspect to be found in the render region settings. So where does the different frame aspect come from ?

anyways...problem solved. Now I can finaly get some sleep and dream of perfectly square pixels ;-)

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