8- How to access the stereoscopic left and right images separately.

When you activate the Create a Stereoscopic Perspective button, the Scene Editor program renders an image for your left eye ("....\DecoTech\Images.ct\~Stereo - Left Image.bmp") and another image for your right eye ("....\DecoTech\Images.ct\~Stereo - Right Image.bmp").  When the two images are completed, they are automatically merged into a Red Blue Anaglyph or an Interlaced stereoscopic 3D perspective image that is displayed on screen.  (Special glasses are required to view stereoscopic 3D perspectives.)  In order to free hard disk space, the two temporary images are automatically deleted.  To avoid this deletion, simply unselect the Delete left and right images at the end button.

t.gif (141 bytes) tr.gif (162 bytes)
l.gif (142 bytes)
r.gif (145 bytes)
bl.gif (163 bytes) b.gif (145 bytes) br.gif (165 bytes)

 

When the Smooth Shading rendering mode is activated, these two images are 24 bits image files, otherwise they are 8 bits image files.

When you select an Interlaced stereoscopic 3D, the height of the two images is the half of the normal height.  When the normal height is odd, the left image has one more line.  You can obtain left and right images with normal height by doing the following :

1- Select the Customized Dimension button.
2- Enter the normal width in the Width text box.
3- Enter the double of the height in the Height text box.
4- Manually set RatioX and RatioY appropriately or click the Auto-Ratio button.
    (The Auto-Ratio button uses a simple function :  RatioX = Width / 640.  RatioY = Height / 480.)

So if you want to keep the left and right image files after the rendering of a specific 3D perspective, simply rename the two image files to something else but keep the ".BMP" extension.  You can use those image files into other programs that support stereoscopic display like the Stereo Image Maker software.

If you render a sequence of images (animation), the left and right images will be saved into the "....\DecoTech\Cellules.ct\" folder but the frame number will be also added to prevent overwriting.
(Example :  "~Stereo - Left Image #0001.bmp".

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