Trace mouse while rendering

[DrJan]

I love this feature and use it alot, but I was wondering if it would be possible to implement something similar, except that you can draw a line that your buckets have to follow (see attachment)

[^Lele^]

If you keep bucket size small (16x16 px for example) and little to no aa, it will follow your mouse in near realtime on most scenes...
I can see why you would want to draw the path in advance, though.

[vlado]

It can probably be made so that if you click (and possibly drag) the mouse, the VFB will "remember" (and mark) the buckets you have passed through so that it will go through them first, before returning again to following the mouse - do you think this will work better?

Best regards,
Vlado

[DrJan]

Yeah that could work also.
Sometimes I just want to see part of a render first (I know I could use region render for that) or make part of a render go first because it's very heavy for example, but I also want to continue working.
If I could drag a line or select the buckets that have to be rendered first I don't have to wait but just continue working and check again later.

Am I right when (looking at your reply vlado) I say that drawing a line like my example would not be possible or very difficult?

[dlparisi]

You can kind of do this already. Just use the mouse tracking in the VRFB and position the pointer on the area you want it to work on and then ALT-TAB over to a new application. The VRFB will no longer track your mouse and will keep working on the area you left it on before.

[percydaman]

You can kind of do this already. Just use the mouse tracking in the VRFB and position the pointer on the area you want it to work on and then ALT-TAB over to a new application. The VRFB will no longer track your mouse and will keep working on the area you left it on before.

That doesn't work when your moving from one monitor to another though afaik.

[trixian]

Any way one could expand on this to have a VFB "region marquee" like in the maya FB? One of the only things they got right when they wrote the old maya renderer, and miles better than the "marquee in the view port" system we have in max.

(Please excuse me if I am repeating an earlier wish-list post).

[instinct]

I dont really know region marquee in maya, but something like this ?

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPrevie....cfm/ID/345225

it's available for free for non commercial use or to test it on maxplugins.

Regards,
Thorsten

[DrJan]

Free? Says there it costs $ 39 dollars!

[instinct]

on maxplugins.de not turbosquid :P tho the cgtalk link seems to be our of order. the 64bit link is working tho.

Regards,
Thorsten

[DrJan]

Oh, that's what you mean with "on maxplugins" :P

I didn't get that part.

[3LP]

It can probably be made so that if you click (and possibly drag) the mouse, the VFB will "remember" (and mark) the buckets you have passed through so that it will go through them first, before returning again to following the mouse - do you think this will work better?

Best regards,
Vlado

if i'm not wrong, there is kind the same feature in fryrender and it's true it's very nice to use.

@ instinct : i can't make it work, it says "-- Unknown property : "getMAXHWND" in undefined"
i'm on max 2008, i think that's the problem, can you make it work on 2008 if you have it?

thanks

[trixian]

I tried the region render tool earlier, and it's quite nice, but rendering in the viewport is not as handy as in the VFB. (Kinda fiddly). This is especially apparent when rendering wide angle shots with the physical camera where the viewport image can't match the rendered distortion. Not a major issue, but I still think this would be better if done directly in the VFB