Render Region other than a Sqaure

[devin]

+1 for a lasso selection tool!

I’ve had this happen so many times where I need to re-render an organic shape and it would be so much faster if I could have selected the exact area.

[Raven]

@bazuka

Imagine a scenario where a small part of your animation needs re-rendering on every frame; being able to keyframe those points throughout the animation… Now that would be something! I guess very hard to implement though.

I have done it before with the “matte box” approach i mentioned earlier, basically with a UV mapped rectangle, with a spline inside, animated vertices. Linked to the camera.
You still have to comp it afterwards, but it saved me a ton of render time.

@Raven

That would be a very useful feature.
For now just create an object and link it to the front of your camera, creating a custom matte box.
Apply a black material and make it a vray matte object that ignores lights and GI.
Done.