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Render Active Object
If you want to save the picture or animation, you must render to the Picture
Viewer instead using the Render To Picture Viewer command. If an alert
appears when you render, see ‘Render Alerts’, above.
This command renders the selected objects and their children in the active viewport. A render progress
bar will appear in the bottom left corner of the screen. To cancel rendering, press Esc or click the
mouse button. To access the options that control rendering, choose Render > Render Settings from
the main menu. The render settings are described later in this chapter.
Render Region
If you want to save the picture or animation, you must render to the Picture
Viewer instead using the Render To Picture Viewer command. If an alert
appears when you render, see ‘Render Alerts’, above.
Use this command to render a region in a viewport. Once you have chosen the command, drag a box
in a viewport to dene the region that you want to be rendered. A render progress bar will appear
in the bottom left corner of the screen. To cancel rendering, press Esc or click the mouse button. To
access the options that control rendering, choose Render > Render Settings from the main menu. The
render settings are described later in this chapter.
Render To Picture Viewer
The Picture Viewer includes display options such as the ability to switch off
specic color channels and the ability to change the viewing size. See Chapter
24, ‘Picture Viewer’.
This command renders the scene to the Picture Viewer. If you want to save the picture or animation,
enter a lename in the render settings before you use this function. Once rendering starts, a progress
bar appears in the status bar. The bar shows the time elapsed since the render started. If you are
rendering an animation, the bar also shows you the current frame number and the total number of
frames.