If you want to keep the current rendered image around and render a new image, click the New Render Window button and the current rendered image will be opened within a separate window, as shown in Figure 5. The Render panel of the Preferences dialog box lets you set the maximum number of cached renders to keep. If you lose a rendered image, you can salvage the image from this folder also. You can clear this cache by deleting all the files in this folder. Note: Rendered images are saved to a PoserRenderCache folder for immediate recall. Figure 4 shows the Render panel with only a small area rendered. If you want to check only a portion of the scene, you can click the Render Area button and drag over the area in the Render panel that you want to render and only that selected portion will be rendered. When finished, the rendered image appears in the Render panel. This opens a progress dialog box that tracks the progress of the rendering process. The Render button in the Render panel starts the rendering cycle. This option is the quickest rendering option. Preview: The same render engine used to display the scene in the Preview panel. Sketch: Renders the scene using various sketch styles defined in the Sketch Designer interface. Poser 4: The render engine included with the previous versions of Poser. The available render engines include:įireFly: A powerful render engine with a number of advanced features for creating realistic images. You can select which render engine renders the current scene from the Renderer drop-down list at the top of the Render panel. Poser supports several rendering engines and each has its advantages. Clicking the Maximize button again returns the Render panel to its default size. Clicking the Maximize Window button in the upper-right corner will increase the size of the Render panel to fill the available space, as shown in Figure 3.
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Figure 2 shows the current scene at quarter size. You can set the drop-down list to the right of the resolution dimensions to render the current panel at Full, Half or Quarter size. You can change these dimensions by dragging on the lower-right corner of the panel to resize it. The current image resolution of the Render panel is displayed at the top left. Setting the Document Window Image Resolution Along the bottom of the Render panel are controls for comparing two images. The panel also includes a pop-up menu of additional commands. Controls along the top edge of the Render panel let you select the image resolution, select the renderer, initiate a rendering, render an area, open a new render window and pan the current window. You can open the Render panel, shown in Figure 1, by clicking the Render tab at the top of the Document Window. Quick Tip: In addition to the Render panel, you can set the resolution of the render image to any size using the Render, Render Dimensions dialog box. Using the Auto Settings, you can drag the settings between Draft (fast render and low quality) and Final (slow render and high quality). You can see the relationship between render quality and speed in the Render Settings dialog box.
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Textures, for example, add a lot of detail to a model, but they come at the cost in rendering speed and memory. There is a direct correlation also between the speed of rendered image and its quality. The Display Style options are ordered by the quickest rendering method on the left (Silhouette) and the slowest on the right (Texture Shaded). The Display Style control has a number of different options for rendering the current scene in the Document Window and the order of these options isn't random. Using this panel, you can quickly render the current scene to check its look.
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The previous chapters have pretty much focused on the Preview pane of the Document Window, but another pane exists-the Render panel.
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