Add parameters to render progress window

[andrewjohn81]

The common parameters shows up there, but that's about it.

I know there can be additional rollouts. Is it possible to add rollouts from the renderer tab?

I've got guys from a completely different country sending jobs to the renderfarm. That's cool, but their settings are sometimes way slower than they need. If I could look at them easier when they are rendering I could let them know.
The way I do it now is open their file, which is a pain because I have to go to the server and unzip the file, open it and check out their settings there.

So i am hoping we can have an option to show all the rollouts in the render progress window to better review the settings we used.

[panthon]

Yeah it would be cool!
And it would be even cooler if u could change vray settings from the backburner monitor queue and restart the job, instead of opening the scene, change the settings, rerender...

[vlado]

At the start of the rendering, V-Ray dumps all its settings into the vraylog.txt file, for example:

...
[2006/Mar/21|16:16:13]   VRay settings:
  rollup 1 "Image sampler (antialiasing)" {
    parameter 42 "imageSampler_type" 2
    parameter 34 "fixedRate_subdivs" 1
    parameter 35 "fixedRate_rand" 0
    parameter 0 "twoLevel_threshold" 0.150000
    ........
    parameter 8 "filter_paramA" 0.000000
    parameter 9 "filter_paramB" 0.000000
    parameter 10 "filter_paramC" 0.000000
  }
  rollup 2 "QMC Sampler" {
    parameter 94 "qmc_timeDependent" 1
    parameter 95 "qmc_importanceSampling" 1.000000
    parameter 96 "qmc_earlyTermination_amount" 0.850000
    parameter 97 "qmc_earlyTermination_threshold" 0.005000
    parameter 148 "qmc_earlyTermination_minSamples" 8
    parameter 211 "qmc_subdivs_mult" 1.000000
    parameter 257 "qmc_pathSampler_type" 0
  }
  rollup 3 "Indirect illumination (GI)" {
    parameter 15 "gi_on" 1
    parameter 179 "gi_refractCaustics" 1
    parameter 180 "gi_reflectCaustics" 0
    parameter 16 "gi_primary_type" 0
    ........
    parameter 239 "gi_saveMapsPerFrame" 1
  }
  rollup 4 "Quasi-Monte Carlo GI" {
    parameter 204 "qmcgi_subdivs" 8
    parameter 205 "qmcgi_depth" 3
  }
  rollup 5 "Irradiance map" {
  ..........

You can check this file to see what settings are being used.

Best regards,
Vlado

[andrewjohn81]

I can't see that on a network rendering though.

The problem is they are setting up the renderings in Italy. I am in the US, where the renderfarm is. The renderings are already going when I get here in the morning (because of the time difference).

If I notice the rendering is taking really long then sometimes I check settings for them because i know a little bit more than a few of them. If they have their LC at 3000 or something like that then i usually tell them that it shouldn't be needed in most cases.

That's why i am asking for it in the render progress window.

[vlado]

I can't see that on a network rendering though.

Why not? Each render slave will write its own vraylog.txt file so you can check any of them.

Best regards,
Vlado

[andrewjohn81]

Ah, I suppose I can open that.
I always forget about those logs.

It'd still be nice if it was laid out nicely with rollouts and all. But I'd rather see other updates first. Like 1.5 actually comming out.