Save rendered image incrementally from VFB?

[Mats_O]

Hi all,

When rendering hires images that even in distributed mode takes 15+ hours (on our farm) I want to save from the framebuffer incrementally. If anything happens during render I don´t want to start over from the beginning again.

Is there a way to do this? Either by saving the FB each 15 minutes or by rendering directly to a file that I can open even if the render is not finalized.

Thanks in advance!

[zeronove]

Vrimg doesn"t work for you?

[Mats_O]

Yes, it works but involves more work (for us in our workflow). Is there a way to save incrementally to TIF files for example?

[vlado]

Nope; .vrimg (or tiled OpenEXR) is your only option right now.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Mats_O]

Ok, tnx, sounds like we should implement exr in our workflow from now on.