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Idea #20: Pause Renders and save to disk

This idea was marked as being in development the 14 December 10. Target release: Blender 2.57.

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Written by Nomis the 17 Aug 10 at 05:24. Category: Compositing. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: In development

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Rendering a big scene can take hours or days to complete. So it would be interesting to have some kind of "Pause" Button.

Tags: disk hd pause render Rendering save

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Venthe wrote on the 19 Aug 10 at 00:03

It could save after rendering part, eg. when set to render 64 parts - if you pause in mid-rendering(No. 32 is done, and 33. is halfway there) it could wait to render last part (No. 33), or save on previous (No. 32).

prodigal_son wrote on the 26 Aug 10 at 23:52

Speaking for free publicly distributed rendering services like ours (Renderfarm.fi), solution number #1 would be absolutely awesome to have working.

Like Nomis suggested in his original post, our issue with Blender is basically that there is currently simply no way to save state if the user quits their BOINC client or closes down their machine. This means a lot of volunteers computing resources are wasted (for example a work unit stopped before 100% is reached, next time the clients starts calculating from 0% again).

Staying on the topic I would rather see this working without the parts setting in use (as suggested by Venthe), since BURP doesn't use that information, but instead has it's own method for slicing the frame.

ike wrote on the 10 Oct 10 at 11:46

can't you render to image sequences and then just stop whenever

jesterKing (Administrator) wrote on the 14 Dec 10 at 18:26

Actually, I know that Janne Karhu has been working on code related to this, so I'm marking this idea as being in development.

I doubt it'll be here for 2.56 though, but who knows!

npm1 wrote on the 26 Jul 11 at 02:50

why dont you just port the work to png then composite it in blender vse or your favourite video editor.....blenderguru aka andrew price has a tutorial on doing this in the latest version of blender

npm1 wrote on the 26 Jul 11 at 02:55

becuase with png you can render a small batch of frames at a time then start from the next bunch thereafter......its efficienct as well.

bartus wrote on the 25 Nov 11 at 12:32

I think this idea could should be also consider for cycles render. Stoping and restarting render jobs like in LuxRender.

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