New User Question About Rendering

dbrock8

As the title says, I'm new to Daz Studio, 3D graphics in general, and this is my first time posting in the forum. My apologies if this is a newb question or if I'm posting it to the wrong place.

If I have a massive scene I know that affects rendering time. However, if the scene is massive but my field of vision that I'm rendering doesn't include most of it, will it still take a long time? Also, if I hide the items in the scene menu does that affect rendering time. I.e. does the rendering take into account every item in the scene or just those in the field of vision used for the rendering?

 

Thanks!

ShelLuser

dbrock8 said:

If I have a massive scene I know that affects rendering time. However, if the scene is massive but my field of vision that I'm rendering doesn't include most of it, will it still take a long time?

Most likely less, but it heavily depends on the scenery. This isn't easily answered without seeing what we're talking about. But I think I got your jest: only the scene in front of the camera is rendered. It's not as if you zoom in on something and then the whole scene (read: also objects outside the camera's view) get rendered as well. That's not how this works.

dbrock8 said:

Also, if I hide the items in the scene menu does that affect rendering time. I.e. does the rendering take into account every item in the scene or just those in the field of vision used for the rendering?

Keep in mind that there are 2 sections to hide stuff from: your scene and the render. If you make an object invisible in your scene then this won't affect your render by default. That is the theory at least. Under normal circumstances you should check the parameter pane (display section) which will have a setting "visible in render") which can be used to do just that.

However.. I tested this and it seems that if you make an item invisible in your scenery it also doesn't show up in the render. Even with the option "visible in render" turned on. Which I believe to be a bug, but can't tell for sure right now.

 

 

dbrock8 said:

 

Thanks!

 

dbrock8

ShelLuser said:

 This isn't easily answered without seeing what we're talking about.

Thanks for the info! To give added info I'm wondering, can I build the entire Dream Home scene (really about 15-20 scenes that all fit together to make a massive scene) and simply move charcters and poses between rooms and render using camaras in the different rooms. Like do walls block everything behind it from being rendered or do I have to delete all the other parts of the house to cut down the rendering time?

Richard Haseltine

dbrock8 said:

ShelLuser said:

 This isn't easily answered without seeing what we're talking about.

Thanks for the info! To give added info I'm wondering, can I build the entire Dream Home scene (really about 15-20 scenes that all fit together to make a massive scene) and simply move charcters and poses between rooms and render using camaras in the different rooms. Like do walls block everything behind it from being rendered or do I have to delete all the other parts of the house to cut down the rendering time?

You don't have to delete, you do need to hide - everything that is visible will be sent to Iray as there's no way in advance to tell what will have an effect.