why does my daz4 render screen have a frame in the middle and only renders the part within the frame

lryhall_17d185bd0d

Somehow, and I have no idea why, I have pushed, clicked, or entered an effect into my rendering screen that looks like a small frame. The only place my figures will render is within that frame. The entirety of the rest of the scene goes unrendered. Have I broken my Daz4?

Toonces

Do you have the 'Viewport' open? It's generally bigger than 'Aux Viewport' which appears like a much smaller version of it.

Also can check Render Settings > General > Dimension Preset > Active Viewport if you want the entirity of your viewport to render.

BeeMKay

Nothing is broken, that is a normal function of Studio. It is called Aspect Frames and allows you to render images in differen sizes and shapes than your viewport. For example, if you want to render a portrait and don't need all the stuff left and right, that also cost you extra rendering times, you select a 17:22 ratio, for example. Or you want to render 16:9 to fit your TV screen.

also, if you have viewscreen selected, that will not allow you any larger image size than what is seen by Studio in the viewscreen. If it sees 735x567 pixels, then that is your image size, even if you really want one that is 2000x3600 or something liike that.

gederix

That frame is the aspect frame, it indicates the live rendering area from whatever viewpoint you are currently using (perspective, camera). You can make it visible/not visible using the dropdown menu top right of the main viewport. Change the dimensions of the aspect frame (and other render settings) in the 'render settings' pane, move it around by moving the camera you are using to render the scene.