Orange dash box restricting view in rendered and material preview shading modes

[Asha_Smith-Minors (shasha)]

Hi there,

I’m just starting out with blender and have been flowing along with a tutorial. I’ve completed the 3D modeling step and the material step but then when I switch from the camera viewpoint to look at it from different angles the screen goes mostly blank except for a small orange dash lined box where I can see the render. It’s really annoying as I wanted to work with rendered or material preview shading now I’ve added the materials.

How it looks in material preview and rendered shading

Hoping this is an easy fix,
thanks for any help!

[thorn]

Not at my desk, so cannot directly check something…but did you inadvertently turn on Render Region Cropping?

[etn249]

Welcome!

This is a tool to restrict the render to a small section of the screen (for faster preview). It’s activated with ctrl+b and deactivated with ctrl+alt+b

[Asha_Smith-Minors (shasha)]

yeah, that worked, thanks a ton!