Rendering too small

retiretomaui

Good morning,

 

When I try to render in 3Delight, I wind up getting a tiny thumbnail just 91 pixels sqare after I save, and not the whole rendered picture. Is there a way to cure this? I suspect there's something in the render settings that's doing this, but I can't figure out what.

 

Many thanks,

 

Robert

StratDragon

Window>Panes>Render Settings

go to the Editor tab

1) select 3Delight in the drop down

2) click General tab

3) manually add the dimension of the required render to the global.

you can also force the render to appear in a new window by selecting it in the Dimension Preset Global dropdown above the resolution options.

jestmart

Are you actually rendering or are you just saving your scene?  The later just creates a reference file to rebuild the scene and generates a 91x91 thumbnail/icon for the file.

R25S

Maybe you are looking at the wrong folder and only view the thumbnail for the saved scene and not the rendered image.

Richard Haseltine

File>Save Last Render, not File>Save (which is the scene file).

SpottedKitty

This is something that maybe isn't all that obvious when you first start using a 3D program — you have two different kinds of files in your computer's memory, the scene (which describes all the objects, morphs, textures, lighting etc.) and the render (an actual picture). If you want to use your scene again, you save the scene. This doesn't save the render... you did remember that you have to render, I hope? You can also save the render, but this doesn't save the scene.

It's this "having to save twice" that sometimes gets forgotten. The scene and the render are completely separate, unlike when you're working with e.g. Photoshop, where the file you're working on is your picture.