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I been hammering away making fractals with M3D for a few weeks now, and I JUST now noticed something horrific.

The program renders your viewing size, and not the image size. Every image I rendered is the size I was viewing at and not the size I set the document up as... eek.

Viewing at 1:7 with Image settings at: 5760 x 4320 gives you and image when dropped into photoshop or whatever that is like 730 x something....  /facepalm.

Is it just me or is this really illogical? Should Image size not = size of rendered image, and viewing just be like zoom level (not have any effect on the render).

Off I go to re-render 60+ images that are all way too small even though I thought i rendered them at 5760 x 4320. (eyetwitch).

Wow I would never have guess that... kind of counter intuitive don't you think? I am glad I know it now, wish I had before I had rendered all those files out but no matter.. I did save the .M3I files so I am still good to go, just a little work to re-do them all.

Such is life, the program is still incredible, I can not complain really, its only a few weeks work, would have been worse if It were a few months work...

That bit of info might be good to have in a FAQ or something cause I think most people that come from other graphics software will think it works the way I did I am quite sure.

But I digress... it is what it is. I thank you, sir, for your explanation.

Warmest regards,

Dr. Michael Semprevivo

I can agree with you to a point I guess, but the things are pretty clearly labled "view" (view shouldn't effect document size any more than your eyes effect the size of a sheet of paper you look at.) So I would hope I could be forgiven for that particual oversight... it is misleading at best. But no matter, as you say, it is what it is. At least I know now how it works and I wont be making THAT mistake again. (tho i am sure I will make plenty of others! haha)

Thanks guys for the input...

///MindsEye