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I've asked myself if it is possible to automatically hide everything and every object while rendering an animation.

For instance if I had a very big scene, like a street in a city, but I only want to render a small part of it or a close up shot. I don't want blender to calculate all the vertices and light bounces from all the other objects around even though most of them are not even in camera view and don't affect the final image.

If i could tell blender that they are not in camera view so they should be ignored it would save a great amount of rendertime. The only thing I know is that you can use the small camera icon the inspector (or outliner) to tell blender I don't want this to show up in the final image, but this is not exactly what I'm looking for: Is there a way to do that dynamicly? Where blender calculates which objects are in camera view and which not by itself. Especially for animations that would be very helpful!

Thank you in advance for your answers, and sorry for my bad english.

joshuaragex
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  • I'm not 100% sure, but I think blender and most 3d software does tihs automatically. – tacofisher Jun 14 '17 at 21:15
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    No, Blender doesn't do this automaticaly, and depending on what render engine you use, you might not even want to do that. An object may be offscreen but still contributes relevantly to a rendered image, like cast shadows, light bouces, reflections etc. This may be done in game engines, and other non global illuminated applications, but even then is not at all something trivial to do. – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 14 '17 at 21:22
  • Related https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/45146/how-to-find-all-objects-in-the-cameras-view-with-python – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 14 '17 at 21:27
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    As pointed out by @DuarteFarrajotaRamos the surrounding elements on the scene, even if outside of the camera view still contribute to the creation of the image. To save time in animation you might want to consider baking the materials so that they are much simpler at rendering time. Then yes, you could ignore the elements that are not in camera view (except for any kind of reflections on glossy materials). –  Jun 14 '17 at 21:28
  • Yes of course there are some light bounces or reflections, but only from the objects nearby. But what if i am rendering an indoor animation and the scene has multiple rooms for example. If objects are out of range from any kind of interaction within camera view then it would be very useless for blender to render them. – joshuaragex Jun 14 '17 at 21:35
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    Blender will ignore whatever rays it cannot see. If you are rendering a closed room with no windows, blender will completely ignore the reflections and subsurface scattering transparency of the beautiful roses bathing in sunlight in the yard that are part of the exterior... As a matter of discipline break down your scene so that it does not contain elements that are not needed. –  Jun 14 '17 at 21:49
  • could you perhaps use different layers and disable those "not in camera view"...? – m.ardito Jun 15 '17 at 11:16

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