AW: [Bf-funboard] Render Buttons proposal

[Benjamin Freundorfer]

Hi!

Well, at first I liked the idea very much, presets only affect a few
settings. But then I realised, I would mainly use my own customised
presets to switch between a preview mode and final mode:

for example:
"2.35-preview": (radiosity, mblur, raytracing, etc. turned off, only
giving an idea of what the animation will look like)
"2.35-final+yafray": (everything turned on, even using yafray as
renderer)
etc.

So, for me they should affect everything, also edge settings.
Nevertheless, the range should NOT be included into the presets.

I think the buttons are very well grouped, as William Reynish designed
them (http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/renderbuttons.htm).
But two buttons ("save" and "delete"<--pretty obvious what they'd do)
should be added just next to the dropdown of presets. And when u
shift-click an the dropdown u should be able to rename the current
setting. When u change settings, the name could either become "custom"
or "[presetname].001". But when your settings eventually match a preset,
there is no need to automatically switch back to that preset.

Btw, is openGL to be included as renderer? At version 3.30 it was. And
it came in very handy for previewing an animation.

benjamin







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Von: bf-funboard-admin@blender.org
[mailto:bf-funboard-admin@blender.org] Im Auftrag von Luke Wenke
Gesendet: Dienstag, 03. Februar 2004 09:14
An: bf-funboard@blender.org
Betreff: Re: [Bf-funboard] Render Buttons proposal


Hi,
I think the presets should only affect:

- width
- height
- scaling (100%, 75%, etc)
- aspect ratio (aspX, aspY)
- framerate
- maybe field options (fields, odd [lower/upper], x) <- or maybe not,
otherwise you might need to have PAL/NTSC both without and without
fields.

The reason for this is that I think the presets should be an easy way to
switch between PAL, NTSC, PAL widescreen, etc. I don't think they should
affect OSA, frame range (start and end frame), etc, settings.

I don't think they should affect xparts, yparts or panorama (pano)
either.
The reason for this is that the current PANO preset sets the image size
to
an obscure setting. And if you click the "PANO" preset, then "PAL"
(etc),
then it undoes the panorama setting when you might have wanted it to
have an
interesting panorama view. (Like I've done in the past - it makes
straight
edges curved)

I think the presets should be:
PAL
PAL 16:9
NTSC
NTSC 16:9 (though I don't personally use NTSC)
640x480

If fields are part of the presets then there would be:
PAL Progressive (or PAL No Fields)
PAL Fields (or PAL Even Field First, PAL Even Fields, or PAL Lower Field
First)... (also for NTSC and 16:9)

I don't think the existing "Full" preset (1280x1024) is a very accurate
description since it seems you can render up to about 10,000x10,000.
Also,
the highest video resolution is in fact 1920x1080 (HD video) - in fact,
After Effects has an even higher preset for cinema work...

If people change one of the variables I listed earlier (width, height,
etc)
I think Blender should check to see if it matches an existing preset. If
not, it could be called Preset.001 (or *Untitled Preset). Then when you
click on it you could name it - e.g. "PAL 50%" or "800x600", etc.

I know there used to be a "Default" setting, but I think it is annoying
that
it turns off envmap, ray and radio like it does... and "Preview" isn't
very
useful - it basically changes the resolution to something obscure and
changes the scaling to 50%.

So basically I'm trying to minimize the amount of fiddling people would
need
to do if they want to switch between different presets. (e.g. PAL, NTSC,
640x480...)

- Luke,

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