Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
each frame renders
when rendering all
frames. (Though it
defaults to being
checked now, be sure
to verify this before
rendering your entire
scene. It's frustrating
to come back from
lunch expecting your
movie to be done and
finding “Click OK to
continue” sitting qui-
etly above your first
and only rendered
frame.)
Frame End Beep makes your com-
puter beep after every frame is rendered.
(Though it can get annoying, when it is
active you know that when there's a long
period without the computer beeping, you
need to come back and check something.)
The Show Rendering in Progress
pop-up menu lets you choose the size of the
window in which you watch your render
take shape. (Regardless of whether you are
watching the progress of the render, the
status information at the top of the window
shown in Figure 4-7 will always be visible
during a render.)
Render Display lets you choose
whether or not you wish to have your ren-
der “held” for you in a window similar to
this after you're done rendering. (If you do
not have Render Display active and you
press F9, the Show Rendering in Progress
window is all you'll ever see of your
render.)
Render Display also lets you choose
whether the displayed frame you see will
be viewed in the “standard” 32-bit color
(24-bit “true” color plus an eight-bit trans-
parency, or alpha, channel) by choosing the
Figure 4-7: The Render Status window.
“standard” image viewer. You can also view,
save, and balance your render display by
choosing Image Viewer FP, working with
the image data in LightWave's internal,
IEEE-compliant, floating-point color
buffers.
Using the pop-up menus on the Render
Display window in Figure 4-8, you can
manipulate the exposure of and/or save the
image (under the File pop-up), zoom in or
out, scroll through a list of renders (under
the Layer pop-up) done while that particu-
lar Render Display window was open, or
choose whether you are looking at the color
image or the alpha channel.
Figure 4-8
Search WWH ::




Custom Search