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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 ment al ray
rendering,butyoucan’tpauseit.
Rendered Frame Window
Rendering menu > Render > Render Scene dialog >
Rend er > Rendered Frame Win dow appears.
File menu > V iew Image File > Choose a file to view. >
Open > Rendered Frame Window displays the file.
The rendered frame window displays rendered
output. It has controls to:
•Savetheimagetoafile.
• 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 t he red, green, and
blue color channels.
•Displaythe
alpha channel (page 3–1001)
.
• Display only monochrome (gray scale).
• Cleartheimagefromthewindow.
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 view sequentially numbered
image files or images in an
IFL file (page 3–666)
,
the rendered fra me wi ndow displays navigation
arrows that let you step through the images.
Procedure
Tozoomandpanintherenderedframewindow:
You can zoom in and out and pan the image in
therenderedframewindow.Youcanevendothis
while
a scene is rendering.
•HolddownCTRLandthenclicktozoomin,
right-click to zoom out.
• HolddownSHIFTandthendragtopan.
If you have a three-button mouse, you can use its
third button or its wheel to zoom and pa n:
•Rollthewheeltozoominorout.
•Pressthewheel,anddragtopan.
Note: You can use any third-button pointing
device to pan the image. To enable this, open
the Customize menu > Preferences dialog. Go
to the
View por ts panel (page 3–874)
, and in the
Mouse Control group choose the Pan/Zoom
option.
Interfa ce
Rendered Frame Window toolbar
Save Bitmap—Allows you to save the
rendered image displayed in the rendered f rame
window.
Clo n e Ren de re d Fra m e W i n d ow —Creates
another rendered frame window containing the
displayedimage.Thisallowsyoutorenderanother
image to the rendered frame w indow and compare