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Diagnostic Turntable Dialog

The Diagnostic Turntable dialog is described below with functions for how to access it. A list of the controls on the dialog can be found in the table below.

What It Does

Creates a series of images showing the scene rotating through an axis. The axis of rotation is a vertical line through the current camera view, centered in the middle of the visible portion of the scene. You can export multiple channels at once. Mari creates all the images using the default shader and flat lighting.

How to Access It

• Right-click | Projector in Projectors Palette > Diagnostic Turntable

Diagnostic Turntable Dialog Fields

Control

Type

What it does

Notes

Channel

list

Selects which channels to export turntables for.

 
Settings

Size

dropdown

Selects the size of the generated images.

 

Antialias

dropdown

How much anti-aliasing to use in the generated images.

 

Background

dropdown

Selects the background for the images (Gray, Transparent, or From Canvas).

From Canvas uses the current background in Mari.

Frames

entry box, slider

Sets the number of frames to generate - how many images should be in the sequence.

Range: 1 to 1000. Default: 360

Play Animation

checkbox

If you are using animated models or textures, lets you render the turntable with the animation.

When you check this, the Frames control above becomes disabled. This is because the frame range is taken from the Play Controls Toolbar.

Filters

dropdown

If this is checked, the turntable images are produced with the LUT and any other applicable view filters applied. If this is not checked, no filters are applied to the images produced.

 
Info

Comment

entry box, dropdown

Sets a comment to include this at the bottom of the turntable.

 

Text Size

entry box, slider

Sets the text size for the comment.

Range: 0.10 to 10.00. Default: 1.00

Reference

entry box, dropdown, button

Selects a reference image to include at the top left of your model.

Second dropdown specifies whether the colorspace is sRGB or Linear.
Output

Path

entry box, dropdown, button

Specifies where Mari should create the images.

Default: /local1

Template

entry box, dropdown

Sets a template for the filenames.

This must include the $FRAME
variable, so Mari assigns the frame numbers correctly to the files.

If you're generating turntables for multiple channels, this should include the $CHANNEL variable, as otherwise the later channels overwrite the earlier ones.

Mari can export turntables as either .tif, .png, .jpg, or .tga files - change the file extension in the template to set the file type.

Command

entry box, dropdown

Specifies any commands to run on files after creating them.

 

Preview

button

Generates the first frame of the turntable, enabling you to check the placement of reference images and text.