The Rendering Tab

The Rendering tab in the OctaneRender Setup Window holds the rendering controls and statistics. This includes the following buttons and their functions:

Open Viewport: To open the OctaneRender Viewport
Pause: To pause the rendering process.
Resume Render: to resume the render process after being paused.
Refresh: To refresh the geometry and materials from the ArchiCAD scene.
Auto Focus Picker: To enable the ability to pick the focus point by clicking on geometry in the viewport.
MaterialThe representation of the surface or volume properties of an object. Picker: To enable the ability to click on the viewport to set the material in the Material tab of the plugin. This will not pick materials from proxy objects.
White Balance Picking Mode: To enable White Balance picking by clicking a point in the viewport.
Render Region Mode: To enable Render Region by dragging a selection in the viewport.
Render Lock: To lock out all node changes so that OctaneRender will continue rendering even while you are making changes on node settings, cameras, or the scene.
Resolution Lock: When activate, this locks the viewport window size (not the image resolution). In this case, you can use the sliders in the Settings tab to change the resolution.
Save: To save the rendered image to an output image file.
Export: To export the scene into an Octane scene file.
Help: Invokes a browser externally and surfs to the online OctaneRender documentation portal.
Hide Viewport: To hide the viewport.
Restore Viewport: To show the viewport.
Save All Render PassesRender passes allow a rendered frame to be further broken down beyond the capabilities of Render Layers. Render Passes vary among render engines but typically they allow an image to be separated into its fundamental visual components such as diffuse, ambient, specular, etc..: to save all render passes enabled in the Render Passes Node to their respective output image files.

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