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Rendered Frame Window 7
Layer—
This spinner appears on the rendered
frame window toolbar when you render to the RPF
(page 3–631) or RLA (page 3–630) fi le format. It
lets you see the information at different layers of
the following channels:
•Z-buffer
•Normal
• Non-Clamped C olor
•Coverage
•NodeRenderID
•Color
• Sub-Pixel Weight
•Sub-PixelMask
Layer shows no additional information for other
channels. It is useful primarily when the scene
contains objects that occlude each other, and you
have tur ned on the Render Occluded Objects
togglefortheseobjects. (SeeObject Proper ties
(page 1–117).) Be aware that rendering occluded
objects increases render time.
Tip: Rendering o ccluded objects can help you
create 3D effects when you composite images with
the Autodesk Combustion software.
Co lor Swatch —Stores the color value of the last
pixel you r ight-clicked. You can drag this color
swatch to other color swatches in the program.
Clicking the color swatch displays the Color
Selector (page 1–161),whichdisplaysmore
information abou t the color.
You can leave the Color Selector displayed while
you right-click over other pixels in the rendered
frame window. (Changing the cu rrent value in the
Color S elector changes the color swatch on the
rendered frame window’s toolbar, but it does not
change the color of pixels in the rendered image.)
Frame-S teps (ar r ows)—For sequentially numbered
files (such as image0005.jpg) or IFL files, the
arrows displa y the next or the previous file in the
sequence. Holding down
Ctrl and clicking an
arrow jumps to the first image or the last image in
the sequence.
Available if the rendered frame window is invoked
using View File in the File menu.
Pixel D ata
When you right-click the rendered frame window,
the color swatch is updated, and information about
the rendering and the pixel beneath the mouse is
displayed.
If you hold the right mouse button down while
dragging, the information changes with each new
pixel the mouse crosses.
The display includes the following information:
Image group
Width—The width of the image in pixels.
Aspect—The pixel aspect ratio.
Height—Theheightoftheimageinpixels.
Gamma —The gamma value carried in the bitmap
file.
Ty pe—The type of image, based on color depth.
Forexample,64bits(RGBA)or32Bitsper
Channel F lo ating-Point (RGBA).
Pixel group
Pixel information includes the pixel location in the
bitmap, in parentheses following the Pixel group
heading. The counting star ts at 0. For example, in