V-Ray - Pause

[Long John]

sorry if this was asked before but is PAUSE the rendering not working?

why?

[stephan_MA]

it simply does not work. vlado told me 6 months ago

regards
s.wolf

[Psy]

its not a vray flaw, its a design flaw in the way max was made.

[Long John]

?

but why is it then working with brazil and (afaik) finalrender?

[sc]

Vray seems to pause only after it's completely the irradiance pass.

Sunny

[Psy]

because they hijack max's native code, which can cause instability problems.

i've heard this, so its not out of the horses mouth, so BB.

[Long John]

Vray seems to pause only after it's completely the irradiance pass.

Sunny

not on my system.
i try to pause while it was rendering.

[sc]

That's strange. I've never really given it much thought. I just thought that's what VRay does. So you VRay will just continue to calc the irr. map and then move straight onto the rendering?

Sunny.

[Long John]

i don´t stop while vray was calculating the irradiance map.
i tried to stop while vray was rendering.

[mike_kennedy]

One of the reasons's I have heard of is that the constant checks required to see if the user has pressed the pause button reduce speed and VRAY is very focused on speed and as a result this feature was ignored to keep VRAY fast. No sure if this is true at all, but it sounds reasonable.

[RErender]

Why would you want to pause a render anyways? The only time I ever seen it done is when some one from a different department pauses a farm machine and leaves it off forever :P

[flipside]

Sorry but pusing a rendering happens a lot here! When I suddenly wan tto open PS or anything else, I want to press pause so the processor can focus on opening the other app or document first. If pause doesn't work, everything else outside max works very slow.

[Bolteon]

and that's why you don't render and work on the same box....

[Long John]

bolteon thats a naiv answer.

[free4dom]

Flipside :

just open task manager and put 3dsmax.exe to lowest priority.

i do it all the time and work on photoshop etc while rendering.
Of course the render takes a little more time, but it still works very well!