Hide Object Outside Camera View

[hellrage]

Hi All,
I'm a noob user in Maya and I'm trying to speed the rendering process using MentalRay. I was told that you need to hide objects outside the camera View to speed things up. Btw, I'm making a simple moving/rotating camera inside a living room.

I was wondering if there's a special button/function that can automatically hide object (or at least disregard them) outside camera View while rendering? Because it's pretty tedious when you have to manually stop and hide couple of objects for couples of frames just for the sake of speed.

Thank you for your help. I appreciate it

[thementalist]

use layers to hide objects in groups easily. much better than ctrl-h. just go to the channel window, and click the new layer button at the bottom. name it, then select the objects you want to hide. right click on the layer and choose "add selected objects to layer". then you can toggle the v button for visibility

[joojaa]

QUOTE(hellrage @ 10/11/08, 06:23 AM) [snapback]293203[/snapback]
I was told that you need to hide objects outside the camera View to speed things up.

Well thst not actually accurate, its a more of a it MAY speed things up. most likely it does not and just interferes with the way ray tracing works. It may indeed make it slower.

On the otherhand if you just disable raytracing its done automatically.