Picture Viewer

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For quick animation previews, use the Render menu’s Make Preview command.

CINEMA 4D enables you to render either in the viewports or to the Picture Viewer using the commands on the Render menu. Although you can render in the viewports when you want a quick test render of the current frame, you must render to the Picture Viewer when you want to render an animation or save the picture or animation.

If you want to save the picture or animation when rendering to the Picture Viewer, first set the save path in the render settings. When you then render to the Picture Viewer, the picture or animation will then be saved automatically using this path. Other render properties such as antialiasing and softness must also be set in the render settings before you render to the Picture Viewer.

By clicking on the left-most icon at the top right of the Picture Viewer , a window will open in which you can set the exposure, gamma values and the black-and-white point for 32-Bit images. This only affects the preview and does not affect saved bitmaps or bitmaps to be saved.

The Picture Viewer also displays all textures in readable formats (TIFF, JPEG, etc.).

You’ll find these two icons in the top-right corner of the Picture Viewer. Click-drag the move icon to move the picture. Click-drag the scale icon to zoom in or out of the picture. You can also move the rendered image by clicking and dragging on the image itself.