How is it possible know the rendering time in bucket mode?

[cecofuli]

Hello,
as in the title, how is it possible know the rendering time in bucket mode?
We know, bucket mode is better with strong DOF. But, the beauty of progressive is that you can set the rendering time for each images.
So, when you want to render an 5 images in one night, just set 2 hours and, in the morning, you have your images done.
But, how can we do the same in buckets?

Thanks!

[borisquezadaa]

maybe extrapolating from a couple of small renders (most probably not linear)?... i dont think that can be determined exactly cause is adaptive and depends on the image complexity more that size.

[racoonart]

Apart from the adaptivity savings, bucket mode is pretty linear now (daily builds). You have a number of passes (iterations) and a fixed number of samples per iteration, so it's passes * samples per iter. = total passes (like in progressive), if you know the time of say 10 passes, you can extrapolate the total time.

[cecofuli]

Do yu think so? Ok, I'll do dome test and I'll see =)
Maybe it will be nice to have, somewhere, an "estimating time" tool =)

[racoonart]

I'm pretty sure about it ;) The daily builds now use a simple passes * samples scheme, it was way more complicated before.
Don't you use the daily builds? It already shows the estimated time in the render progress window.

[cecofuli]

Ohh... I preferred to use December version (stable and good enough for us)
We are working for a big project. You know, it not good idea to change version ;-)
So, with bucket, now Corona show the  estimated time in the render progress window! Great!