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Snapshot multiple BPR's in a document [Answered]

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#1

I’m trying to create quick best preview renders of multiple snapshots of a single tool in a document for the purpose of showing work in progress. My imagined workflow is something like this: edit the tool to get the view I want, hit BPR, create a snapshot of the tool, edit it to get another view, hit BPR, repeat as needed. However, in practice, this doesn’t seem to work the way I expected. Each time I create a snapshot of the tool after creating the BPR, the render is reset upon editing the tool again.

Is there a way to drop nice, rendered versions of the tool to the canvas and then continue editing and rendering new views?

#2

Yes it is, though it’s a bit of a fiddle. You need to use the Layers in the Layer palette:

  1. Create your first BPR. When done, press Layer>Bake. This will ‘fix’ the render.
  2. Create a new Layer, draw out your model and do the next BPR. Your first Layer will disappear but will reappear when you bake this Layer.

Repeat with new Layers as you wish.

You’ll find that the previous renders (models and the floor if you use it) will get in the way of the later renders. You can Shift+click the selected Layer to turn off/on the other Layers. When you’ve done you can bring a Layer forwards by using a negative value in the Layer>Displace Z slider, and the EraserBrush in the Tool palette will erase any bits of floor or whatever that are in the way.

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#3

Worked splendidly Marcus. Thanks for your help!