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Following on from my thread about long render times for architectural renders....
In an attempt to increase the quality of our work, we are employing different workflows. Render times are obviously going up, but this is fine (to a point). We like to queue up renders overnight where possible and employ DR on each of these images to make full use of our farm (through backburner).
The drawback of this approach is that we are never entirely sure how long each render will take, and there is no frame buffer when using DR through BB (at least the way we have it setup as a service - I will need to check if we have a frame buffer when BB is running manually).
What is the best approach, using Vray 3, to giving each of these images a fixed amount of time to render, so that we at least have some sort of output for each image in the queue? Bear in mind that we render at around 4kx4k pixels, and we usually have a number of render elements. The machines have between 16-32GB ram each.
Example: we have four images to render and we are leaving the machines on overnight. How can I tell each image to render for 4 hours only (and save the result) so that we have something to look at the following morning?
In an attempt to increase the quality of our work, we are employing different workflows. Render times are obviously going up, but this is fine (to a point). We like to queue up renders overnight where possible and employ DR on each of these images to make full use of our farm (through backburner).
The drawback of this approach is that we are never entirely sure how long each render will take, and there is no frame buffer when using DR through BB (at least the way we have it setup as a service - I will need to check if we have a frame buffer when BB is running manually).
What is the best approach, using Vray 3, to giving each of these images a fixed amount of time to render, so that we at least have some sort of output for each image in the queue? Bear in mind that we render at around 4kx4k pixels, and we usually have a number of render elements. The machines have between 16-32GB ram each.
Example: we have four images to render and we are leaving the machines on overnight. How can I tell each image to render for 4 hours only (and save the result) so that we have something to look at the following morning?
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