No Render Settings options displayed when hitting Render settings bar?

Cybersox

I picked up a couple of Ska motion's sets for G3F in the sale and decided I'd play with animation for the first time in several years.  Unfortunately, toggling  Render Settings in the menu bar mode doesn't seem to work in DS 4.10 anymore, nor does typing Ctrl+Shift+R.  It seem to doesn't work in the current Beta either, so unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a way to tell DS to actually RENDER an animation any more, and that can't be right, can it?  Did they break this during one of the updates and never fix it or did the Render preferences get moved to another place in the menu?  I've done a bunch of searches and while I've found a bunch of people asking the same question going back to DS 4.9, yet no one ever seems to have given a response. 

 

 

 

 

Cybersox

Addenda - Okay, I found out that part of the problem was that I was using a image size preset from an older version.  I went back and manually retyped the dimensions instead of using the preset and that let the "movie" option come up in the render settings menu.  That said, the render settings drop down on the main menu bar still isn't working. 

 

Richard Haseltine

I'm not quite sure what doesn't work - Render>Render? Or just toolbar buttons and keyboard accelerators?

Cybersox

In the top menu bar - in the render tab, there are three drop down items.  Toggling Render makes the image render.  That works.  Toggling the next setting down, Render settings, however, does nothing.  What I remember, and what the manual shows, is that there should be a drop down menu with movie as one of the options.  Instead I have to open the render settings pane, go to general, then set the video option under "type." 

 

Richard Haseltine

For me Render>Render Settings just brings the pane to the front of its group. Render settings used to be a dialogue, but it became a pane in 4.7 or 4.8 (enabling stuff like arithmetic in the numeric fields and generally increasing consistency).

Cybersox

Richard Haseltine said:

Render settings used to be a dialogue, but it became a pane in 4.7 or 4.8 (enabling stuff like arithmetic in the numeric fields and generally increasing consistency).

Okay, that answers the basic question, since I haven't played with the animation features in a few years - I wasn't doing something wrong, DAZ just changed something from the way I remember it working, and never updated the documention to reflect that.  Not sure why using an image preset that used to work locked the Render Settings pane up, but re-entering it over from scratch fixed it, so I'm okay to go for now.