Rendering : Closing 3/4 camera's lens

[Gelero]

its urgent!
:(
:thumbsdow

[marcusss]

What I would do is this:

first, put a plane in front of the camera, color it black, and render a frame (so all you see is black).

second, remove the plane, and render using the "region" option, and select the region you wish to be non-black.

render: a black border surrounds your image.

did that help??

Mark'Huss

[Arnage]

You might want to check out the wide screen example script that comes with max. Run the RenderEffect- 16x9.ms script, then go to your render effects panel and you should see an extra effect called 16 X 9 effect, this script overlays black borders on the top and bottom of the screen with an animatable width, might be useful for you.

[Gelero]

Marcuss: I tried your suggestion! But i cannot achieve what i want with it.. There's another way?? Thank you anyway! :thumbsup:

Arnage: Yeah! Thats what I want! But I need 3/4 of the screen cover by pure black!!!
How can I do that using that script man!!!

:hmm:

[Arnage]

You should change the border size to 3/8 of you rendering resolution to cover 3/4 of the screen with black borders, the borders will always be on the top and bottom of the screen though. I've attched an example picture: the height of the pic is 240 pixels so i've set the border size to (3/8)*240 = 90 pixels to cover 3/4th of the screen with pure black, hope that helps.

[Gelero]

hehe No man...
there's a conversation problem here...
eheheh

Imagine your screen output divide by FOUR! with one vertical line and another horinzontal line... a screen made by 4 equal-size squares... got it..

and now I need to paint three of them with pure black!
:D

i want to cry!
:(

[Equinoxx]

ehm . .. why not render it out as normal and overlay that with an image with alphachannel [1/4 white, 3/4 black] in your video-editing softwware of choise :shrug:

[Gelero]

and that's, my dear Equinoxx, is a another problem..
i really dont know nothing about after effects, combustion, etc...
:(

[Arnage]

i'm trying to edit the script to make it do what you want, but i'm a complete maxscript dummy, so don't expect anything, but if i succeed i'll post it for you...

[Gelero]

ohhh that would be great!!!
:D :buttrock:

[Arnage]

argh, i can only get it to work for images with a height of less then 200 pixels, because for some reason unknow to me the border width doesn't want to go higher then 100 pixels... ( i told you i'm a crap scripter)

You're probably using a resolution higher then that, so i guess i have failed :hmm:

Here's an example of a 200 pixels high pic...

[Equinoxx]

it's very simple.

in your 2d paint app of choise, make create a new image the size of your render output [gonna assume Photoshop here].

fill it with black.
then, open the channels panel. create a new channel (this is gonna be your alhpachannel. Fill the 3/4 you want to be black with
white {in alpha chanels, white is what you see, black is what's gonna be transparent} the 1/4 should be black.

save it as a 32-bit targa {*.tga}

open afterFX import your render and the image that contains the alphachannel.

place the render in the 1st layer and the image in the layer above that.

voila

[Gelero]

Arnage: man... your effort is really great! ADVANCED thanks!! really! :applause:

Equinoxx: I ll try your way, anyway...
But please, stay tunned coz i will need your help again probably on AE thing... anyway thank you thank you...
:D

[blindsleeper]

you could always make a title screen in aftereffects/preimere and only put black forms where ya need it... it works well, and when/if you want to get rid of them you can just use a transition to get rid of it

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