Settings for rendering output.

Frame Range

Animation

Enable or disable sequence rendering

Frame padding

Number of digits displayed in your file name (replaced by # variable).

Start Frame

Use only for sequence rendering. Select the first frame to start sequence from.

End Frame

Use only for sequence rendering. Select the last frame in the sequence.

By Frame

You can select frame step for rendering.

Skip Existing frames

You can select if frames should be skipped if already exists.

Renumber frames

Change the frames number for your sequence.

Start Number

Select the first frame number.

By Number

You can select frame step for renumbering.

Renderable Camera

Renderable camera

You can select camera for rendering.

Alpha channel

Indicates if alpha channel of rendered image is stored into file.

Depth channel Z depth

• NOT SUPPORTED - Parameters are taken from Maya -  Channels are selected in output settings

Image Size

Resolution and pixel ratio

Parameters are taken from Maya

Render Options

Enable Default Light

You can enable or disable default light - it is light when another light is not presented in scene.

Render Region

Render only selected region from final resolution.

• Left, Top: top left corner of region
• Width, Height: width and height of region, final region width and height is clamped to original image resolution
• Fill values from region: Select region in Render View (you can use Maya snapshot for preview) and click on this button. Top, Left, Width and Height values will be filled.
• Full Size Frame: Render region into image with full resolution, all image except selected region will be black with zero alpha.

Output Settings

File Name

Path where will be the files renderer

The File Name attribute has a possibility to add several global variables to it and expand the values for every frame or settings used. Let's explain this on the following example, it is also the default filename and path:

       $MAYA_PROJECT/Images/$SCENE_NAME/$RENDER_SETTINGS#

This string tells the renderer to put the rendered files into a directory with the same name as the scene being rendered ($SCENE_NAME), this directory is under 'Images' subdirectory located in Maya project path ($MAYA_PROJECT). The file images will be named after the render settings node used ($RENDER_SETTINGS)and frame number (#)will be added to it. The output path and files could then look something like this:

       C:/Maya Projects/My Project/Images/My Scene/Beauty0001.exr

       C:/Maya Projects/My Project/Images/My Scene/Depth0001.exr

       C:/Maya Projects/My Project/Images/My Scene/Beauty0002.exr

       C:/Maya Projects/My Project/Images/My Scene/Depth0002.exr

       .....

If the path doesn't exist it will be created.

Here is the list of variables that will be automatically expanded when used:

• $MAYA_PROJECT - path to currently set project
• $SCENE_NAME - name of currently opened scene
• $RENDER_SETTINGS - name of currently active render settings node (will be expanded into, for example: "furryBallRenderSettingsDefault")
• $CAMERA - Camera name
• $CAMERA_TRANSFORM - Camera transform node name
• $PASS - Name of Render pass
• $FB_VERSION - FurryBall version
• $EXPORT_DIR - Use directory from Export settings
• # - number of frame currently rendered, number of digits is specified by Frame padding attribute

• TIP - Those variables can be used to path and also to filename. You can render this way to specific directories for each Pass, Project or Render settings.
• TIP - Those variables can be displayed when you click on information icon at the right.

• Advanced TIP - It is possible to define custom variables by creating Python script file 'FurryBallEnvVarUser.py' located in 'scripts' subdirectory where FurryBall is installed. In this directory file 'FurryBallEnvVarUser.py.example' exists. You can rename it to 'FurryBallEnvVarUser.py' and you can start with editing it.

Channels

RGB or RGBA in single image (You can select if Alpha will be rendered in same image)

Image format

Bit depth for final image 8-16-32 bit.

• TIP - Be careful to select proper file format. JPG is for example 8 bit only, PNG can be 16 bit and EXR can be 32bit...

File format

Output file format to save rendered images to. Note that not all formats can handle all depths. Use OpenEXR formats for images with bigger depth than 16 bit.

Image backup

When you render over old sequence, images will be backup in folder.

Backup Folder

Path where will be stored previously rendered frames.

You can use relative path to file will be rendered or you can specify absolute path.

If the path doesn't exist it will be created.

The Folder Name attribute has a possibility to add several global variables. See File Name attribute in Output Settings section.

• TIP - This variables can be displayed when you click on information icon at the right.

Render

Start rendering - sequence or single image.

• TIP - Please note, that interactive progressive rendering is ALWAYS slower than final render without progressive.

Export Settings

Folder Name

Path where will be stored exported scene

If the path doesn't exist it will be created.

The Folder Name attribute has a possibility to add several global variables. See File Name attribute in Output Settings section.

• TIP - This variables can be displayed when you click on information icon at the right.

Export Textures

You can select if also file textures should be exported. If you don't select it, file textures will be loaded from directory as is stored. It allows to use FurryBall texture cache, but you must have access to this textures from place where you start rendering (same computer, textures saved on shared network place etc.).

Export

Start exporting - sequence or single frame.