Snapshot Options

The Snapshot Options window provides options that determine the size of the snapshot produced and whether it should be Anti-Aliased or not.

Snapshot Size

A number of snapshot sizes ranging from 160x120 to 1600x1200 are available.

Custom sizes are also available by selection "Custom" and entering a desired Width and Height.

Anti-Alias (Available with 3D Canvas Pro)

Anti-Aliasing produces smoother images, at the expense of much slower rendering times.

If you do not have 3D Canvas Pro, you can get anti-aliased images by rendering in a size larger than you need and then using an Image Editing Program to scale the image to a smaller size.

Raytrace using POV-Ray (Available with 3D Canvas Pro)

This option will be available if you have 3D Canvas Pro and POV-Ray installed on your system. If you select this item, 3D Canvas will use POV-Ray to render your scene rather than Direct3D.

POV-Ray is a Raytracing rendering engine that is available for free at www.povray.org. Rendering with POV-Ray is much slower than with Direct3D, however it produces more dynamic images with true shadows and reflections. Note that the lighting scheme for POV-Ray is slightly different than Direct3D so you may find that the final image produced by POV-Ray is somewhat darker, or brighter than the Direct3D produced image. Also, textures are not rendered unless you have the MegaPOV version of POV-Ray which is available at ftp.povray.org. There are also differences in interpretation of materials that may make your objects look somewhat different.