output autosave

[mitviz]

hi, i enabled autosave and on render end 40 and during render 40, with interval 20 minutes. i am rendering 4 images with batch render but for some reason i have only now 9 images in the folder, shouldnt there be 6 for each image and 24 in all in the folder?

[mitviz]

Also can the stats panel information be saved with each image somehow?

[romullus]

I don't know how you came to those numbers (6 and 24), but according to your settings, autosave should save 40 images at 20 min intervals befor it starts overwriting old files. It doesn't care if you rendering single images, batches or animations.

As for the second question, part of stats can be saved with render stamp. There should be ability to save it to xml file, but i don't know much about it.

[alexyork]

You know what. It would be really nice if the autosave appended the number of passes in the filename. Example: view_01_autosave_001_247_passes.exr etc.

[mitviz]

I don't know how you came to those numbers (6 and 24), but according to your settings, autosave should save 40 images at 20 min intervals befor it starts overwriting old files. It doesn't care if you rendering single images, batches or animations.

As for the second question, part of stats can be saved with render stamp. There should be ability to save it to xml file, but i don't know much about it.

my reasoning was that it saves at 20 minutes intervals no matter if its rendering from a new camera or not, so for each image i set the render at 2 hours so i would have 6 images for each image and since i have 4 in total 6x4 which is 24 but thing i am trying to get at is i set the limit at 40 to ensure that i have images saved at 20 min and i would end up with 6 different saves for each image on render end

[Ondra]

You know what. It would be really nice if the autosave appended the number of passes in the filename. Example: view_01_autosave_001_247_passes.exr etc.

this is actually possible, name the output file  %v_autosave_%pp_passes.exr

[alexyork]

Great! Thanks Ondra. Would you consider making this the default? I can't see any reason not to, and it would be very useful to most people I think.

[romullus]

You can make it as default by yourself. In 3ds max go to render setup>performance>performance settings and turn on enable devel/debug mode. New rollout dev/experimental stuff will appear, in it locate and press open config dir button. This will open folder with Corona config files in windows explorer. Locate most recen file named "config-xxxxxx.conf", open it in notepad and add following lines at the end:

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bool   vfb.autosave.enable = true
string vfb.autosave.filename = "D:/Corona/autosave.exr"
Change filename to your desired and save file. That's it, from now on, every new scene will have autosave enabled with correct path.

[alexyork]

Great stuff thanks Romullus :)

I'd still request that this be on by default.

[mitviz]

yeah just on by default, but i will do this workaround until then:) thanks guys!

[romullus]

That's not workaround, that's ability to customize Corona to your needs. Not everyone wants same defaults.