Continue working on a model while rendering in progress

[kaizerco]

Is it possible to work within max while a v-ray render is in progress? (on the same computer - not in RT mode!).
I am trying to transition from vray for sketchup to vray for max. In sketchup you can keep working on the model while rendering... and in Max it seems... you cannot!?

And if not, what are the alternatives?

[Oleg_Budeanu]

There are several ways to do that actually.
First the simpliest - make a batch script and render via .bat command - it will render in separate 3dsmax instance.
Second is to make as a job on BackBurner - you send it to render , you have locally running server and manager , job added - renderstarted in separate 3dsmax instance.
if you want to render in the same 3dsmax instance - i am afraid it is not possible , though maybe there is a trick ?

[Richard7666]

You can do it in V-ray for Maya, I remember when I switched to Max thinking "wtf, I can't work and render in the same instance?"
It still annoys me to this day that Max is so clunky in that regard.

Those are good workarounds though

[Morne]

Try running a spawner on the same pc you are working on and do a DR (untick "use local host")

[3LP]

It's technically possible to do it, but for stability reasons, Vlado decided that vray would not be able to interact while rendering. Other engines line corona leaves this possibility to their users.
I just get used to it, and find work around like mentioned earlier as I prefer have rock solid software.

Stan

[vlado]

Is it possible to work within max while a v-ray render is in progress? (on the same computer - not in RT mode!).

Sure, you can run a backburner server locally and then you can just submit scenes to it. This is very convenient as you can queue several different renders of the scene while you work on it, without having to wait for each of them one by one.

Best regards,
Vlado

[kaizerco]

Thank you all for all the quick replies! I am sure to try any one of these methods soon.

[glorybound]

I know when I hit render, I can't do anything else on my machine, so I am not sure how successful you'll be doing this.

[dlparisi]

Which is why Morne said...

Try running a spawner on the same pc you are working on and do a DR (untick "use local host")

[glorybound]

I am not sure that'll help; the render will still take all your resources.

[cheerioboy]

I am not sure that'll help; the render will still take all your resources.

You can always remove a few cores from the process that's hogging resources

[Task manager, processes, right-click the process using all of the CPU, Set Affinity..., tick off one or two cores.]

[Morne]

I am not sure that'll help; the render will still take all your resources.

Set affinity for Max and untick half your threads (untick only 2 so you can still use another max)

EDIT: Nuts! Brendan typed faster then me :- )

[glorybound]

Yep, that's exactly what I do, if I have to work on my machine when I am rendering something.

[dlparisi]

Click "Save servers in the scene" in the DR settings dialog and uncheck (or don't ever add your main workstation). If you tell the BB manager to start the BB render on another server using DR it will never know your machine exists, hence no loss of resources.

[3LP]

I'm used to check low thread priority straight away as soon as I'm in vray. It takes that issue away as it will let you work normally on other softwares without any issues.
I don't understand why this isn't a default setting in Vray anyways. Who wants to have a computer locked and not able to do anything else even if it's a node. This options doesn't change anything in render time if nothing else is going in the background

Stan