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Aux Viewport help

KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214
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How do I get the IPR in the aux viewport to work with Iray ?  I was never able to use it on my laptop but now with my new custom build I will be able to but I have no idea how it works.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,068

    IPR is a 3Delight thing. What you can do is set the Aux Viewport to use the nVdia iray preview mode (click the sphere icon next to the camera/view drop-down at top right).

  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214

    I sorta figured that out but I was curious is the view in the aux viewport and the main viewport supposed to change if you move items in either window? I noticed if I changed the pose in the main window it was reflected in the auw one too

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,068

    Yes, the Aux Viewport should be live(ish, if it has to wait for the 3Delight IPR or Iray preview mode). You can simply use it as another view on your scene, if you wish, without the preview options.

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,212

    Of course, you are looking at the same scene so anything you do to the pieces in the scene are reflected in each view. You can change the camera view and have them different in each window, main camera in one and perspective view in the other, and have one in Iray and the other in any of the other styles.

  • KharmaKharma Posts: 3,214

    Ok I must have had 2 differnent camera views at one time and never noticed, because the image only changed in one view, and now I noticed it changed in one and not the other.  Thanks for your help :)

  • jakibluejakiblue Posts: 7,281

    Hopefully someone will see this, cos I am totally confused :)

    I have the Viewport on my second monitor (the first monitor has all the rest of the stuff)

    On the Viewport, I can change the draw style to "iray render" so it renders in real time while I working on the scene. Which is cool. However......I can't work out how you would stop the render, or even save the render. It just....renders. Normally, I have the render come in a new window with the "save" and "cancel" settings on it. How on earth do i do this when changing the draw style to iray render?

  • j cadej cade Posts: 2,310
    jakiblue said:

    Hopefully someone will see this, cos I am totally confused :)

    I have the Viewport on my second monitor (the first monitor has all the rest of the stuff)

    On the Viewport, I can change the draw style to "iray render" so it renders in real time while I working on the scene. Which is cool. However......I can't work out how you would stop the render, or even save the render. It just....renders. Normally, I have the render come in a new window with the "save" and "cancel" settings on it. How on earth do i do this when changing the draw style to iray render?

    For Iray draw mode, it renders to the same specifications a normal render would (the settings under render settings>progressive rendering). Because I'm on a crappy laptop, while I'm working with the aux view rendering I'll set max samples down to 20 or 30 (you could also control it by max time). I set it low enough that I can get a good idea of how everything looks without my computer killing itself. The only thing is remebering to crank it back up for final renders. (Blender has preview samples and render samples seperate, I hope an upcoming version of Studio implements something similar)

    To save something from your aux viewport go to file>save last draw

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,212

    I wouldn't use the main viewport set to Iray. Open up the Aux Viewport tab and dock it somewhere, I have mine docked with the scene tab, and set it to Iray. Leave the main viewport set to Texture Shaded. When making adjustments in the main viewport the Aux one will update showing how it will look in Iray. The Aux Viewport can then be hidden and shown as needed while the main viewport will be unaffected.

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