Detail in camera ???

[pclavett]

Can anyone tell me the difference when selecting "detail in crop" and "detail in camera" in the advanced rendering options ??? Are there any articles or documentation that will clear up all these tabs and options that you have in the rendering panel.. so that I understand what counts and what simply does little more than increase rendering time !!!

Much Appreciated !

Paul

[Tangled-Universe]

This is from the changelog of TG 2.0.3.1 which you can find in the Announcement section here:
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6224.0

What it describes:
Two new render settings on the Advanced tab which control the region in which ray traced polygons are fully subdivided. Outside of this region the ray traced polygons are only coarsely subdivided. Previously this region was the frustum seen by the rendered image or crop region, but now you can also choose to have no detail or to have detail everywhere within the camera frustum regardless of crop settings. "Ray detail region padding" can be used to enlarge (or shrink) the region. A value of 0 means no padding. A value of 1 adds a border to each side of the frustum which is equivalent to the width or height of the image or crop region, which makes the frustum 3 times as wide and 3 times as tall.

Matt's techy descriptions are a bit puzzling now and then, so I also did an advanced forumsearch for "detail in camera" and selected posts by Matt and found this description of the function by PG approved by Matt:

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=7019.msg74780#msg74780

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Martin