Hi Brycers. For some photoprints of our work we need to re-render them from 800 x 600 to 3000 x 2000. Is there a way to view the process on the WHOLE image? Now we only can see a small portion of it and we would like to monitor the famous horizontal line ;-) Thanks in advance; Willem and Madeleine

don't you think that would be boring. rendering such a big image takes time. and no, i don't think it's possible.(please correct me if im wrong)

I think you can let it make one pass, stop the render, then use the magnifier (on the side) and zoom out, should show your whole scene then. Then just click resume render. I've always just walked away or went to bed when I have a big render so never tried to monitor it. Arleen

It is possible. When you click on the little cube on the right of the screen you eventually get to the render-screen. under the cube are little magnifying-glasses with a + and a - on them. If you click them in wire-view they adjust the camera, but if you click them in the render-screen you zoom in and out on the image. This will however still result in the line being invisible at times. For instance if you zoom out so you view the image at 1500x1000 instead of 3000x2000 the line will be invisible half the time of the last pass. This is because not all the pixel lines are shown on screen as result of the zooming out.

You could buy a very large monitor :-)))

You can interrupt a render to screen, then press+hold the Space-key (cursor will change into a hand) and drag the visible part of the rendered image with the mouse (dont drag while being in the editor mode!). Then continue the render. Hubert

Thanks all of you for the help ;-)

Could you rent a large screen tv and use it as the monitor? Do those devices that project the computer screen onto a wall let you project a big render? Lin

1 no, and 2...no :p

You can use a TV of beamer as monitor, however the res will not be high enough to view the whole image at 100%.

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Don't forget that as you are going to re-render to a different aspect ratio, that the image may not show all of what you want. 800x600 is a 4:3 aspect ratio, while 3000x2000 is a 3:2 aspect ratio. Do a test render at say, 600x400 (same ratio as your final size) to see if there is a noticable difference in what will be in your final pic. Not related to the question as such (viewing the rendering), but still fairly important.

A two pronged approach might help? Raise the monitor resolution first, then zoom out whilst rendering. I work with a screen res of 1600 x 1200. On the rare occasion that I wish to view the whole render I set it up to 1920 x 1440 so there is only a small amount of reduction when I zoom out in Bryce.