I sit here & watch my scene rendering, for the like one millionth time. I watch as it does it's "Rendering Shadow Map" part. The gray bar filling with blue, ever so slowly. I have to wonder something...

I've more then a few objects in my scene, all with there own color, there own light reflection & there own shadows.
Some objects are behind others & some objects sides don't show.
Does Poser render, err rather, process everything before it renders or just what is visible?

Impatient, I mean Inquiring minds want to know.

Thanks.

Scott

I think it does everything..from countless attempts to view the whole picture while the l'il guy is still marching across the plank..;)

Poser renders everything in the scene, regardsless of it's visible or not. I'm not 100% sure it also renders things that are placed BEHIND the camera I remeber Stewer (I think) posting about it once. So it CAN speed up your renders if you for instance make the bodyparts that are covered by clothing invisible.

So if a scene is complex with lots of content making unseen objects or anatomy invisible would reduce process time. That makes sense. This is good to know. Thanks As for processing it all. It sure seems like it does it all. I had another thought... And if the above is true this probably is to. When I do an area render does it process all of the scene or just the stuff in the area I select? Awhile back in one of my first few scenes I put together, I wanted to see a final quality render & crunching for time I decided to only render 1/2 of the scene. I used the area render. Later, I area rendered the other half & guess what? When the second was done it retained the previous render & I didn't even have to merge the two. Certainly the actual rendering was quicker but it seemed like the process was quicker to. But maybe that was just an illusion. Today I tryed rendering a scene but it failed, telling me it was to big. I had it set at 600dpi I think around 1500 pixels & Final in Firefly. I then tryed to render only half and it to failed to. I ended up kicking down my pixel size and leaving all other settings the same. Which worked. Thanks for the feedback. Scott