Aux viewport and drawstyles--how?

Spit

Isn't there supposed to be access to the drawstyle menu in the Aux viewport? It doesn't show up for me. I have yet to see iray 'render' there. I have the ipr menu and can stop and start a 3delight render in the aux viewport but if I switch to iray as the renderer it ipr menu disappears.

The drawstyle menu is available to me in the main viewport and works there as expected, just not in the aux one.

 

fixmypcmike

When you hover your mouse over the upper right corner of the Aux Viewport the options should appear -- drawstyle is the one to the left of the camera pulldown.

Spit

Thanks but no there was nothing there.

I had to change layouts to fix it. Still trying to get interface back the way I want it. My saved layout was a bit too old to be useful.

Morpheon

In the upper-left corner of the Viewport and Aux Viewport windows are three sets of controls: (from left to right) the View Selection menu (which lets you select perspective, top, left, front, etc.); the DrawStyle options menu (which lets you select wireframe, smooth shaded, textured, etc.); and the Viewport options menu. In order to set the Aux Viewport for Iray preview, choose:

Aux Viewport >> DrawStyle options >> nVidia Iray

The nVidia Iray option draws heavily on system resources, so it's best to only have it enabled in a single viewport at any given time. Also note that when adjusting the view (panning, rotating, zooming, etc.), the scene will revert to smooth shaded, and then update itself once all adjustments have been made. The view of the scene from within the Viewport and the Aux Viewport are identical, so any changes made in one will automatically affect the other.

This is only way I know of to preview the positioning of the environment sphere from within Iray.

 

Richard Haseltine

The Draw Style and View Selection menus have swapped position in 4.8, and the exposure control appears to the left of the Draw Style button in nVidia Iray draw style.