You just have to laugh

[Geespot]

So when you gonna do an animation? ;)

[danb]

Doh!!!!:scream:

[ODoul]

Let us see it!! -- 3d_e

[squidinc]

ouch :surprised


if only there was a way in c4d to render a small area of an image

[Cartesius]

Yes, it was a real shock when I discovered it. First I just stared at the screen thinking: "Maybe it isn't noticable, maybe it will be OK!", but then I faced reality and just broke down in laughter. Man, I'm happy this is just a hobby -- what if I had a deadline?

Anyway, the image I'm rendering is a re-render of my flintlock gun (http://www.cartesiuscreations.com/galleries/gallery3/flint.html) I did some time ago. I've replaced the newspaper page with a piece of wood and what I forgot was to elevate the gun so it would rest on top of the wood. Now they're intersecting each other in a very stylish way. :)

I might have a solution, though. I will let the scene render and then use the render region technique (http://www.cartesiuscreations.com/tutorials/render_tut/render_region.html) to isolate just the gun and its immediate surroundings. I have ticked the box to save the radiosity solution so hopefully it won't take another three days. If I had had XL 8 and Samir's new plugin it would have been even easier, but I don't. Yet.

/Anders Kjellberg

[flingster]

its a cruel cruel world...makes you wanna cry not laugh...but i know the feeling...just being able to test stuff with more flexibility and less hit and hope...might be worth you checking out sniper pro...very cool plugin...:eek:

:annoyed: :thumbsdow :annoyed:

[LucentDreams]

even better is one I did just last week at the schooll (luckily the students projects don't take entire weekends to render specially since there is no radiosity.) In a rush to go as class jsut ended, I was helping a student fix something in the render seettings, then we stood up to leave I hit enter to render the animation, but not knowing he was using the same file name as a previous render, it came up with a dialogue asking to write over, that neither of us noticed as we walked away. Lost about twenty five minutes of worktime inhis next class while max rendered away.

[Iggy]

I did a net render last night that took about 9 hours on 3 P4 1.8's. It's just a draft, but when I looked at the results, it turns out that right before rendering I moved a key sequence that I intended to copy and basically ruined the whole thing. Can't see most of what I was trying to check... DOH!

[bobtronic]

This is a lesson I learned also to well. Now if I make
animations (what I do not often) I make first a editor
rendering of the whole animation to check for errors.
The burned hand learns best :)

Bob

[kiwi]

Ah man Cartesius I feel for ya :)



Ever set up a nice long overnight render,got up the next morning to find you forgot to turn off the default light after using it for modelling only illumination :blush: :rolleyes:



Actually a nice warning of some kind like a light which shows up or a little pop up warning you the default is still on in 9 would be cool :)



Stu.

[CosmicBear]

:surprised
awwwwwwww, poor guy!

well, you're quite right when laughing about it. there isn't much you can do about it anyway.

still feel sorry for you tho!!

but i think, it happens to all of us now and then. like starting an animation (single tifs), turning off the screen, going to bed to find out about 12 hours later that about 30 seconds after the screen was off cinema stopped rendering because the save-path was wrong and cinema didn't know where to save the files. and this was on a deadline. i've learned the net-renderer in one day :D

[Monty]

You need Sniper Pro from Paul Everett <tools4d.com>

[Cartesius]

You need Sniper Pro from Paul Everett <tools4d.com>

Yes, I've tried the demo of SP with the demo of XL 8 and I'll definitely get that plug once I can afford to upgrade Cinema.

/Anders Kjellberg

[fdb]

heh, i did something very similar with an small animation experiment i was trying out, i too went away for a weekend and had everything set and ready to go and even though i wasnt using any radiosity etc, my very overworked G3 would still take most of the weekend to render out everything so as everybody else did, i hit render and away i went.
When i came home i discovered that the animation had completed and rendered perfectly except for one thing, some of the objects i had animated still had the visible in render option switched off so i ended up with a 20 sec clip of static background scenery! DOH!

[handige_harrie]

Ah well, I once did a 10DAYS and 45min render :blush:. Fortunately I did turn out to be perfect (too high radiosity settings). When you have started rendering and check back after two days it seems such a waste to abort it...so you leave it on. Luckily it was on an otherwise idle pc.

Originally posted by squidinc
ouch :surprised

if only there was a way in c4d to render a small area of an image

A camera-facing black plane with a hole in it exactly so you can see the parts you want rerendered. Compositing-tag with the correct things ticked and you are ready to go.

You might have some trouble though when doing this in a radiosity scene. Some subtle photoshop touchup might make the colordifferences along the edges invisible.

Render region wont work (does it?) because you can only use it in your viewport and almost never has the same size as a defined render-to-picture-viewer render.

:wavey:

[JIII]

No render reigon doesn't work, not unless you have a precisely calibrated 40 inch monitor lol.

yea I think its an option that alot of people have wanted before.

I think some other software companys have this option. Max has it I think.

anyway it would be useful but ohh well
we can't have everything. or can we?

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