Forum: Bryce

Subject: Area Render Shield

frogdot opened this issue on Nov 10, 2006 · 11 posts

frogdot posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 12:44 PM

I made this about four years ago and figured I'd share it. I always render to disk and sometimes find a spot that has a mistake, or some problem that requires re-rendering. With this shield, I can re-render only the area in the open window, without having to take the time waiting for an entire image to render. Especially handy if you have glass, reflections and other time consuming areas. It's like the plop-render, but you can save to higher resolution, unlike a screen render. When I made my mirror to mirror infinity image, I made one large render at regular settings and then with the shield, rendered the center of the reflections at a higher setting. Saved a bunch of time.

Just put the shield up close to the camera, highlight the cube, then resize and move around, as needed. Aimed the mini-tute for the most basic user.

AgentSmith posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 1:08 PM

Rofl........holy cow. It's the simplest things that are the best. I know of a couple of times I could have used this idea. Thanks frogdot!

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danamo posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 1:46 PM

A brill but simple idea! Thanks.

Svarg posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 2:05 PM

An elegant solution to be sure.

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tom271 posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 2:34 PM

Keeping it simple



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serendigity59@gmail.com posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 4:50 PM

This sort of feature should be inbuilt into Bryce..  Maybe in ver 8.

Incarnadine posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 6:00 PM

I do this sort of mask thing in C4D all the time.  it is a brilliant idea the way you have done this for bryce.

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skiwillgee posted Fri, 10 November 2006 at 11:12 PM

Yes, brilliant.  Now if I can remember this super morsel.

Rayraz posted Sat, 11 November 2006 at 1:37 PM

omg so simple that i wonder why i never thought this up myself!

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striving posted Sat, 11 November 2006 at 4:36 PM

Dave, you are my Hero!!!!!! And can I have your brain when your done with it?? lol.

donniemc0 posted Wed, 15 November 2006 at 8:10 AM

great idea... i could have done with that a couple of images ago...;) simple and very effective!