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Add Scene Event 327
Inter face
The Add Scene Event dialog provides the following
controls:
View group
Select the viewport y ou want to render and give it
auniquenameintheLabelfield.
Scene Options group
Enables various rendering effects.
Render Options—Displays a subset of the
parameters in the Render Scene dialog. For
informationonthesecontrols,seethe
Common
Parameters (page 3–27)
and MAX Default Scanline
A-Buffer (page 3–37)
help topics. Changes you
make to the Scene Event Render Options affect th e
Render Scene d ialog, as well.
Scene M otion B lur—Tur ns on th e scene
motion-blur (page 3–1101)
effect for the w hole
scene. This is different from
object motion blur
(page 3–1075)
, which creates motion blur for
individual objects in the scene.
Scenes created with previous versions of 3ds Max
that use both Object Motion Blur and Scene
Motion Blur may not render correctly, due to
changes to Object Motion Blur. Execute some test
frames and adjust your blur settings if needed.
When y o u render with Scene M otion Bl ur
activated,theRenderProgressdialogtells
you w hich subsample is being rendered. The
information appears in parentheses to the right of
the "Rendering Image" text. For example:
Duration—Sets the virtu al shutter speed for mot ion
blur. When it’s set to 1.0, the virtual shutter is
open for the entire duration between one frame
and the next. When it’s set to a smaller number
(for example, 0.25), the number of subdivisions
specified in the Duration Subdivision field will be
rendered within the specified portion of the frame
(inthisexample,inthefirst.25oftheduration
between one f r ame and the next).
Duration Subdivision—Determines how many
sub-frame slices are rendered within the Duration.
Thedefaultis2slices,butyou’llwantatleast5or
6 to get a decent effect.
Dither % —Sets the amount of dithering (page
3–1023)
between blurred pixels of overlapping
frame slices. If Dither % is set to 0, no dithering
occurs.
Scene Range group
Setstherangeofsceneframestoberendered.
Lock R a n ge B a r to S cene Ra n ge—Becomes available
when you deselect Lock to Video Post Range.
When it’s available, the End spinner is disabled
andlockedtotheVideoPostrange.Whenyou
change the Start spinner it automa tically updates
the End spinner based on the Video Post range set
for this event.