Hello peeps. Been quite some time since I was here on rosity. I have converted more or less over to Carrara from Bryce. But one thing I cant figure out is the darn frame showing what you get when rendering. Sometimes its there, sometimes its not. It looks scene dependent actually. I thought you could turn this of and on when you select the camera and the little figure beside the load button. Att least in version 5 I think it was. Has it been moved in version6? Anyone?

Goto your View menu and select 'Show Production Frame' :)

CTRL-ALT-F

Aha, that did the trick. Heh, production frame. Didnt ring a bell what so ever that it was the camera :)

Note that sometimes the frame is so large you cannot see it in the camera, then you have to switch to the render room and set the render size to something small so that the frame edges are in the camera again. (How do I know this....? Ha. ha.)

or switch to the director's view to find that darn thing (the blue camera aka the production frame).

Be careful sometimes though. You can actually grab the frame boundaries. I suppose it's considered a feature, but sometimes it's a pain if you do it unintentionally.

There was a reset production frame plugin, believe at associatedfx.com, but not upgraded for c6. Really should be integrated. I have never had this issue, but quite a few new users apparently have had this happen.

click the magni-glass on the lower left and shrink it to 75% or 50% to see the frame
in camera 1.

If all of the above fails to get ye olde picture frame, try clicking on Camera 1, then in the dropdown menu, send it to origin-that will place the camera at the bottom and in the middle of the back and left grids.  Now if the model can't be found either, do the same and you will now have the model with the camera and picture frame embedded in it-don't forget to group your model pieces together before doing this though.  Jan