From the course: Maya: Rendering in Arnold 6

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Analyzing renderings in the RenderView

Analyzing renderings in the RenderView - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya: Rendering in Arnold 6

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Analyzing renderings in the RenderView

- [Instructor] The Arnold RenderView has helpful features for analysis of rendering, and the first one I want to show you is the ability to crop the rendering to a certain region of the frame. And this is useful especially in situations where you need to change settings such as the sample quality and you don't have time to wait for an entire frame to update. So we can enable Crop Region, and then draw a rectangle on the frame, and only the area inside that rectangle will update. We can go over to our Perspective View and orbit around or tumble with Alt + left mouse and we can see that only that section inside that cropped region is updating. We can move the region around, click and drag on the plus sign in the center. We can resize the region by clicking and dragging on its corners. And when we turn Crop Region off, and we go back to rendering the entire frame. We can also visualize information about the current pixel…

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