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#Cropping a scene

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#11285From: Michael D. LallemonMay 3, 1995 2:52 PM
Hey Terry, Thanks for your help on the sphere rotation problem I had a while back. You had the right answer! Here's a new one… I need to know the easiest way to crop part of a scene where I can create a small portion of an animation so that later I can overlay this animation onto a larger image of the full scene. Does this make sense? It seems difficult to do this so that the smaller image (AVI file) always lines up with the larger BMP. I know Ian Firth has talked about this before, he may have some insight on this. Ian are you there?
#11288From: Ian FirthMay 3, 1995 4:07 PM
Michael, Yes, I have been trying to do that for 9 months now, to no avail…. and from what I gather, the option will not be in 2.0 (Caligari, please, please, please…). It's a must have feature as I am concerned, and the only workaround I have found is to render the whole image for however many frames as BMPs. Then surgically remove each element you need, and compile to an AVI. Painstaking, but do-able… Regards, Ian