Nostricum opened this issue on Dec 23, 2014 ยท 13 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 23 December 2014 at 12:55 PM
Stick a pair of one-sided squares on either side of your camera, positioned so that they block the part you won't be rendering. Parent them to the camera so they move with it.
Set them to only be partially transparent, like 15%.
Now as you move around with the camera you will have the letterboxed area much darker.
In order to ensure these "blinders" don't interfere with the render, set them to invisible to camera and invisible to raytracing and cast no shadows. They will only affect preview.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)