What about Background Rendering Vlado?

[Artizen]

when i submit a network render, i start the server, and let it render in the background by setting the cpu priority to below normal, i can get on with my work, and the render barely bothers me on most scenes.

Is it possible to have this inside the Viewport buffer?
so when you hit the render button, you can move or minimise the render window and continue working on your scene, cause its rendering with low thread priority, only catching excess cpu left over from you.

This would save hours in lost time waiting for renders, and a lot less clicks than setting up a network render. I think a lot of people would want this, and you would be the first renderer to do so.

what are your thoughts?
is it difficult to code?

This would streamline my workflow 100%

[Dynedain]

you can always hit ctrl+alt+delete select 3dsmax in the process list, right click, change priority to low

[Dynedain]

oh, i see....you want to continue working on a scene while rendering (without netrender).

No, I don't think that is possible in Max.

btw, you can have max automatically run at low priority if it is net rendering by putting this script in your scripts/startup folder:

if isnetserver() do sysinfo.maxpriority = #low

[Artizen]

thanks for the reply
i kinda do something like this already, was just trying to reduce clicks, as submitting a netrender isnt quite as nice as hitting one button.

set file save name
check net render
click render
click connect
choose server
click submit

6 button presses could be made into 1 button?

[RErender]

netrender submission is scriptable, not too tough to make it one click.