Re: off-screen rendering
David Blythe (blythe++at++banshee.engr.sgi.com)
Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:18:24 -0800
| Tom Flynn wrote:
|
| >....
| >My boss just asked me to render one of my scenes at 2048x2048 and capture
| >it to a file. Screen res wise, my Onyx IR only goes to 1900x1200 (bummer :)
| >...
| >write that out to a file? Maybe using SGI P-buffers or something?
| >
|
| In my opinion (Allen Akin will correct me if I am wrong :-), pbuffers
| is a over-kill for this. You can do this by tweaking "ircombine"
| appropriately. If you have an extra monitor, you can even see what
| you are rendering. If you have HDTV monitors it will look even better:-)
|
| The thing you have to really worry is whether you have enough RM boards
| to do this. I used to have a table with that data for different sampling
| resolutions which I don't have with me here (home). You might look in
| pf archives or at SGI web site for it, or just go ahead and try ircombine.
you could also break the image into 4 tiles, render them one at a time
at 1024x1024 and then piece them back together.
-db
|
|
| shankar swamy
|
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