In the past I have often used viewcapturetofile to add lines to a render as a separate layer in photoshop. This works well and I often up the resolution of the viewcapturetofile output to improve the quality of the lines (jaggies). In the past this works perfectly without any messing around. The vi…

Hi Robin - do your viewcapture from a viewport that has the same aspect ratio as the rendered image and it should work - NewFloatingViewport is a good way to make a viewport that you can size to taste from the Peoperties panel. -Pascal Pascal Golay pascal@mcneel.com www.rhino3d.com 206 545 9…

Hi @pascal Yes, they have the same aspect ratios. The render is 1500x1200 and the viewcapturetofile is 3000x2400. I’m not sure how the floating viewport would help but I will give it a go. Robin

Hi Robin - I mean the viewport itself should have the correct aspect ratio, not just the capture. NewFloatingViewport is a convenience, it is not necessary for the thing to work. Oh, hold on, I see we’re on a mac here… I bounce around the forum, I didn’t notice… could be different, I’ll check but I…

Hi @pascal Thanks, I’ll give that a go. I have done some more experiments. If the -viewcapturetofile is set to the same pixel dimensions as the render then the extents match the render of the same viewport. That is good and what would be expected. The issue seems to be when increasing the pixel d…

-VieportProperties > Size doesn’t seem to work for me

@pascal thanks, any further thoughts on the viewcapture problem?

Hi Robin - can you confrim that it lines up correctly if the viewport has the same aspect ratio as the view capture and the rendering? I realize this might be hard to set explicitly in macRhino right now, so maybe work backwards from the viewport that you have… for now. -Pascal

Hi @pascal Apologies for the delay. I’ve now had a chance to test this and as you have suggested, using the viewport size as a starting point rather than specifying a render resolution seems to solve the problem. It would be really nice for this workflow to work again when specifying a resolution…

[image] robinp: -VieportProperties > Size doesn’t seem to work for me This particular bug should be fixed in the latest RhinoWIP (5E41w) . Please give it a try.

Viewcapturetofile and rhino render

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pascal (Pascal Golay) August 2, 2016, 3:50pm 7

Yep, I see that… thanks.
http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/MR-2820

-Pascal

Rhino 5 for Mac WIP Build 5E41w

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