Hi pple, quick question,

often I’m seeing scenes from pple with in their main render-vieuwport 3 boxes, i’m assuming it’s got something to do with the camera, but i can’t figure out what?

If it’s a useful gadjet, I’d love to know what it is,

greetings,

Boomerang

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Hey Boomerang,

To understand basic Max functionaliy like this I would
really recomend going through EVERY tutorial that ships
with Max as they do a very good job of introducing major
tools and features to the user.

To answer your question, what you are looking at is
the ‘safe frames’ display. Do a search in the help for that
phrase and all will be revealed. :-)

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Bri

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I knew it was going to sound like a stupid Question, since it’s basic, but i’ve been reading and watching tutorials for about 4 months now, haven’t noticed anything about this.

Appearantly that’s because it’s an “animation” part of 3DSM - save frames

I’m not into animation, but architectural design, so I reckon I won’t have need for it :)

tnx for the reply,
Boomerang

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Boomerang 24 November 2007 10:21 AM

I knew it was going to sound like a stupid Question, since it’s basic, but i’ve been reading and watching tutorials for about 4 months now, haven’t noticed anything about this.
Boomerang

Apologies for my assumption that you hadn’t. :-(

Safe frames is a tool used mainly (but not exclusively) by those
involved in ‘broadcast’ work.

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Bri

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>>I’m not into animation, but architectural design, so I reckon I won’t have need for it<<

Boom,

It can be useful for you, too. The yellow outer border fits to the aspect ratio of whatever your render output setting are. Therefore you see exactly what will render in the viewport. If you are using a wide screen monitor this can prevent you from accidently rendering the top area of a skydome that wouldn’t appear in the viewport because it’s stretched to fit the screen, for example.

I have it turned on more often than not.

Ted

Ah, nice, tnx, useful indeed then,

normally i have to play around with the pixel settings in the common tab @ render-rollouts
with custom sizes and such, rendering each time in low mode to see if it’s the proper size i’m looking for

nice one, thanks

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Yes for critical composition work, Show Safe Frame is extremely useful.

If you right-click on the viewport label, and choose Configure, there is a tab for Safe Frames settings. You can turn off the Action and Title and just leave the Live Area. Other options available.

Tim Wilbers [FA]

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Department of Visual Arts
University of Dayton
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