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Chaos Corona for Cinema 4D => [C4D] Feature Requests => [C4D] Resolved Feature Requests => Topic started by: Rhodesy on 2016-12-07, 13:58:57

Title: Resumable rendering
Post by: Rhodesy on 2016-12-07, 13:58:57
I see Vray has just announced this in their 3.5 update. I remember Maxwell announced it about 10+ years ago but did they ever get it to work? I know in V1 when I bought it, it didnt work. Funny that light mixing is only coming round in other renderers now as multilight is pretty old news as a feature. I'm looking mainly at vray here, as Corona was relatively quick to implement it.

Anyway the resumable rendering feature is so appealing to me with long render times and sleepless nights praying nothing will interrupt an over night rendering under the heat of a deadline. Having the option to save out periodically as Corona renders would be a great intermediate solution (I know this will sacrifice a bit of speed) but then the full blown resumable render feature would be fantastic and also opens up the possibility of moving the render from one machine to another.

Cheers
Title: Re: Resumable rendering
Post by: maru on 2016-12-07, 14:55:08
The only problem here is that this feature is already implemented in Corona since ages. :)

We even have a tutorial about it:
And a helpdesk article: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000516263-how-to-pause-rendering-and-resume-it-later-

There is also an autosave options which does this for you: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000515607
In 1.5 it's located in the "system settings" window. We will need to update the article, sorry for that.
Title: Re: Resumable rendering
Post by: 4b4 on 2016-12-07, 15:10:05
Hi Maru

You may not know but Rhodesy is a C4D user and I don't think we've got it yet, I'm  looking forward to when it's available too!
Title: Re: Resumable rendering
Post by: Rhodesy on 2016-12-07, 17:41:09
Doh what a fool!!! Yes I'm a C4D user and must have missed the memo. Sorry! Awesome news though that we should be getting this too before long.

With the interval saving. Can that file be used to restart the render from the last interval before crashing or is it only the image file that it saves? I suspect the former which would be great.
Title: Re: Resumable rendering
Post by: Ondra on 2016-12-07, 17:47:13
This is section for 3dsmax requests ;) I am moving this to C4D
Title: Re: Resumable rendering
Post by: maru on 2016-12-08, 16:19:41
Oh, so this was a misunderstanding...

With the interval saving. Can that file be used to restart the render from the last interval before crashing or is it only the image file that it saves? I suspect the former which would be great.
You can continue rendering from a manually saved file, or from an autosave. You can specify the autosave interval in render settings.

Title: Re: Resumable rendering
Post by: houska on 2017-04-19, 14:18:35
This is now present even in Cinema