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Rendered Frame Window 5
Rendering Progress dialog
When you click Render, a rendering progress
dialog shows the parameters being u sed, and a
progress bar. The rendering dialog has a Pause
button to the left of the Cancel button. When
you click Pause, the rendering pauses, and the
button’s label changes to Resume. Click Resume
to continue with the rendering.
Note: The mental ray renderer does not support
the Pause button. You can cancel a mental ray
rendering,butyoucan’tpauseit.
R endered Fra me W indow
Rendering menu > Render > Render Scene dialog >
Render > Rendered Frame Window appears.
File menu > View Image File > Choose a file to vie w. >
Open > Rendered Frame Window displays the file.
The rendered frame window displays rendered
output. It has controls to:
•Savetheimagetoafile.
• Place a copy of the rendered image on the
Wi ndows clipboard, ready for p asting into
another graphics application.
• Createacloneofthewindow. Thisdisplays
a new window so you can create another
rendering and compare it with the previous
one.
• Display a new rendered frame window.
• Enable or disable display of the red, green, and
blue color channels.
•Displaythealpha channel (page 3–907).
• Display only monochrome (gr ay scale).
• Clear the image from the window.
3ds Max also displays still images and image
sequences in the rendered frame window when you
choose the View Image File command from the
File menu. When you v iew sequentially numbered
image files or images in an IFL file (page 3–616),
the rendered frame window displays navigation
arrows that let you step through the images.
Procedure
To zoom and pan in the rendered frame window:
You can zoom in and out and pan the image in
therenderedframewindow.Youcanevendothis
while a scene is rendering.
•Holddown
Ct rl and then click to zoom in,
right-click to zoom out.