mitchino wrote:Still can't get the live viewer to do what I want it to!!!
In the perspective view in c4d everything is set up the way I want to see it in the Octane live viewer.
I open the live viewer, It opens at a different shape from my perspective view, with semi transparent black bars at the top and bottom. I click the lock res icon, and it zooms in and crops my image. I drag the corner and try to resize it to roughly the same dimensions as my perspective view, it remains zoomed in. I uncheck the lock res icon and drag the corner but no matter what I do it will not show me the same view and crop as I have set in my perspective view.
I just don't get it, why can't it just work like the picture viewer? It should only show the same picture as my intended output, and I should be able to zoom in or out of that view.
Maybe there's a tutorial out there that can explain how to get this working the way I want it too? Is it because I'm on a mac? Does it work better on Windows?
Relax, dude. Take a deep breath. Ok. Now click the lock button. The lock button locks the aspect ratio of the rendered view to what you've got in your Render Settings and defaults to displaying that render scaled 1:1. See the number that just appeared on the right end of the Channel selection pulldown in the Live Viewer? That lets you set the desired scale of the rendered image. Adjust that to whatever scale you find appropriate.
Be aware that the image is scaled
pre-render. So, for instance, if you are working 1/4 scale, the render times for the full res render are likely to be about four times longer, etc.
Speaking as someone relatively new to Octane myself, and who has stumbled around my fair share, I know learning a new tool can be frustrating. But please, just ask nicely. There are lots of great people at Otoy and here in the larger community that are happy to help.
Cheers,
- Frank