PSD Manager Slow to kill

[glorybound]

Has anybody been experiencing PSD Manager taking forever to cancel? When I cancel a render it'll sit at PSD Manager for about 5 minutes.

[dans]

There was a V-Ray bug related to aborting a render, but a workaround is already in psd-manager since 3.0. So i guess that is not it.
Details and workaround can be found here: V-Ray bug, first render effects called even when render was aborted

Did you try to cancel mid-render or after the actual render while psd-manager writes the PSD?
V-Ray, psd-manger, 3ds max versions used?
What does your render progress bar look like while you wait, does it move?
Really 5 minutes or does it just feel like 5 minutes?

If you canceled mid-render psd-manager will detect that and do nothing. Maybe the render progress dialog just still shows the "psd-manager" text while V-Ray does some other cleanup. (Try adding an empty FileOutput effect before and after psd-manager to check if this is the case.)
While the PSD is already written the render can not be aborted currently (like all other file formats I believe). The file is written on the fly and you would be left with a broken PSD file otherwise.

Best Regards,
Daniel

PS: From reading the title I first thought your psd-manager is slow and you want to kill someone - feeling atleast safer now

[glorybound]

well... I feel like killing something! It sits at, "Current Task: psd-manager" for more than 5 minutes (it seems like an hour). It's a large scene, with a ton of proxies, but it's still frustrating.

[dans]

I'm happy to help, but so far I don't have any details (see questions above).

Email: mail@daniel-schmidt.biz
Skype: daniel_schmidt

Best Regards,
Daniel

[glorybound]

Did you try to cancel mid-render or after the actual render while psd-manager writes the PSD?

mid-render

V-Ray, psd-manger, 3ds max versions used?

3DS MAX Design 2013, v-ray 2.30.01 and psd-manager 3.2

What does your render progress bar look like while you wait, does it move?

the progress bar is where the LC left it, or sometimes the bar is just blank.

[dans]

If you cancel mid-render then V-Ray should not even call any render effect (that's the old V-Ray bug i pointed to above). Whatever, psd-manager doesn't do anything at that point because it also checks itself if the render was cancelled to workaound that. This is the first line form the psd-manager code.

if(checkAbort && checkAbort->Check()) return;

It checks if the render was cancelled and is done. So V-Ray or 3ds max is doing some cleanup after the render and the text "psd-manager" is just not removed/updated until the render progress windows is closed. Add any other render effect (e.g. just an FileOutput) before and after psd-manager and you will probably see that effect's name shown instead.

I noticed another V-ray thread Max-2013-sluggish-just-after-render. Could that be related?

Best Regards,
Daniel