I need to know how exactly focal and perspective work in P5, I end up trunicating all my renders, what focal is best for close-up, meduim and, extreme long range(like city shots)? And, does anyone know where I can find a copy of Lighting for dummies? I could also use some basic lighting tips. Thanks.

If you get truncated images, be sure that the window sizes are set correctly in your Render options. For some reason, P5 defaults to some sort of render window size that doesn't have the same proportions as my document window, and that cuts off part of the render.

I render to a larger window that my document window, it allows me to see much more detail in an image that's 800x600(or larger) than my 600x500 document window. My problem there is it cuts off parts of the bottom and parts of the top, some kind of messed up inaccurate widescreen effect. I get the basics, but it seems a little different than P4 and I haven't got the hang of it yet. As far as the lighting goes....I need help. Thanks for the info.

You need to click "Match Document Window" in Render Options before resizing the image to prevent this.

Doing that will resize the width and heigth, but you can then set them to whatever values you want and the image will render correctly.

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If you're joking that's just cruel, but if you're being sarcastic, that's even worse.

For close ups (especially portraits) a focal length of 100 is very good, for city scapes a focal length of 50 or less would be better. 50 would be a good number for medium shots, too (depending on the subject). Some city scapes might need a focal length of 30 or less if the scene is huge. 50 is the focal length of the human eye.

Thanks for the help.