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Rendering Animations

The Animation Settings Node is used to control the shutter interval.The value is relative to the frame time which is set in the time slider via the FPS option.

The Animation Settings parameters can be accessed directly from the Node Inspector window without adding and connecting a specific Animation Settings node to the scene (Figure 1).

Figure 1: The Animation Settings node button

The Animation Settings Parameters

• FPS - Specifies the number of frames per second, where a frame is a different rendered image, each processed and shown consecutively to simulate motion within a scene.
• Time - This specifies the shutter time percentage relative to the duration of a single frame, and it controls how much time the shutter stays open. You can set this to any value above 100% manually.
• Shutter Alignment - Specifies how the shutter interval is aligned to the current time. This determines when the camera shutter is triggered. The options are Before, Symmetrical, or After, and they apply to each frame thereafter relative to the given frame rate (Figure 2).

Figure 2: Illustrating After, Before, and Symmetrical Shutter Alignment

• Shutter Time - This specifies the shutter time percentage relative to the duration of a single frame. Shutter Time controls how much time the shutter stays open. You can set this parameter to any value above 100%.
• Subframe Start/Subframe End - Specifies the approach, in terms of proportion (%) to simulate the camera’s shutter speed for that particular frame. OctaneRender uses Subframe Start and End percentages to render only a portion of a particular frame. If the scene has a lot of motion blur, OctaneRender uses these parameters to render only a piece of that motion blur. Values of 0% and 100% render the whole frame (default).

Note: Motion BlurAn optical phenomenon that occurs when a camera’s shutter opens and closes too slowly to capture movement without recording a blurring of the subject. with DisplacementThe process of utilizing a 2D texture map to generate 3D surface relief. As opposed to bump and normal mapping, Displacement mapping does not only provide the illusion of depth but it effectively displaces the actual geometric position of points over the textured surface. is currently not supported.

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