Render window

[aflack]

When I render an image on screen, how do I keep that image in the render window so that next time I render a region it renders over the top of the old image and I don't loose everything around it?

 

Thanks

[Bugga_Guy]

don't close your render window... by closing the render window you are resreshing it.

 

butwhy dont you just save the 2 images and composite in photoshop?

[aflack]

Thats the thing I never close it just move it down to a corner of my screen. Sometimes when i hit render on certain models the whole window goes black where as when i am doing other images the original image always stays as a background.

 

I could do it in photoshop but in most cases I just render region over the existing image and I want to know why this doesn't happen all the time?

[IceAged]

What render engine are you using?

When using scanline the image will dissapear if you start zooming in and out with the mouse wheel during rendering, whearas if you are using mental ray the image will remain on the screen, regardless of zooming.

You can click the 'clone' button above the image if you want to make a backup in max... but usually i compare images in photoshop...

[aflack]

Just vray the image I am doing at the moment the image I render will stay in the window once then it will disappear after I have render over it once.

[hooman_71]

Hi there,

If you are using vray you can press F10 to get render options

In render tab, go to the Vray Frame Buffer & click on "enable vray frame buffer" tag.

in this frame buffer u can use a lot of options including show previous frame(s)

hope it help

[Koper]

everytime you change your resolution of the rendering it resets the window and i don't think there is a way of keeping it except if you clone your window before the next render