New tutorial online: Render region

[Per-Anders]

Great idea and tute :)

[station75]

Hello

very cool method to decrease render time, i think that You should link it up with index.html file :)

[JamesMK]

Very neat idea! I can easily see how something like that would be cleverly integrated in a future Cinema release, like "render to picture viewer using lasso/polygon mask"

[lllab]

thanks for the tutorial,

but i have one maybe dumb question:
why dont you use the foreground objekt, with an quick mask? this is the way i do renderregions in cinema.

you take the image, make a quick mask in psd, put into the forground objekt. and you can render a region.
for me this was a very fast way to repair details of the image, or to get a high res preview of a region

i think this should also work with radiosity, but i am not quite sure.

i will test sometime if the forground objekt with a black mask also works for radiosity images. i think this would be an optional method to yours...

cheers

stefan
lllab

[Gerry]

Cool, great job Cartesius
:thumbsup:

[Cartesius]

Thanks guys, I will link it with the index-file as soon as possible :)

@stefan: yes, using a Foreground Object with a psd-file is a pretty neat trick as well and should work with radiosity without any glitches. I find that using a polygonal plane gives you more freedom "on the spot", so to say. You're working in Cinema all the time without needing to switch to Photoshop and you can move/add objects without guessing where their mask will be in Photoshop. I guess it comes down to preferences and workflow :)

/anders

[manlio]

Very good tut Cartesius. Thanks. :)

[Deestrakt]

oh thats smart !
thx for sharing this :thumbsup:

[STRAT]

yup. i been using this 'letter box' region method for over a year now.

i hope maxon include 'render region to file', for large renders in particular, in future releases, together with a render backwards feature.

[lllab]

hi cartesious,

yes its defenitly a matter of taste, but i dont have to guess where the mask should be, i just paste the screenshot into psd select exactls the area where i want to render, invers selection, fill it black- eh voila the mask is ready.

to my taste this is as exact and easy as with your method, i think people will choose which one they like, both are a simple way to render a region:-)

i use my metod also to render stills across the netrender, this was not invented by myself, it was posted somewhere, but i forgot who it was.

i really whished maxon would build something like this into a next cinema update, to automate it.

cheers, and thanks for the tutorial:-)

lllab
stefan

[flingster]

very crafty both methods...thanks for the tips and tut..appreciated.
:beer:

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