Resumable rendering

Corona Corona for Cinema 4D Feature Requests
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I see Vray has just announced this in their 3.5 update. I remember Maxwell announced it about 10+ years ago but did they ever get it to work? I know in V1 when I bought it, it didnt work. Funny that light mixing is only coming round in other renderers now as multilight is pretty old news as a feature. I’m looking mainly at vray here, as Corona was relatively quick to implement it.

Anyway the resumable rendering feature is so appealing to me with long render times and sleepless nights praying nothing will interrupt an over night rendering under the heat of a deadline. Having the option to save out periodically as Corona renders would be a great intermediate solution (I know this will sacrifice a bit of speed) but then the full blown resumable render feature would be fantastic and also opens up the possibility of moving the render from one machine to another.

Cheers

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The only problem here is that this feature is already implemented in Corona since ages. :smiley:

We even have a tutorial about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmBQplCo30
And a helpdesk article: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000516263-how-to-pause-rendering-and-resume-it-later-

There is also an autosave options which does this for you: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000515607
In 1.5 it’s located in the “system settings” window. We will need to update the article, sorry for that.

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Hi Maru

You may not know but Rhodesy is a C4D user and I don’t think we’ve got it yet, I’m looking forward to when it’s available too!

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Doh what a fool!!! Yes I’m a C4D user and must have missed the memo. Sorry! Awesome news though that we should be getting this too before long.

With the interval saving. Can that file be used to restart the render from the last interval before crashing or is it only the image file that it saves? I suspect the former which would be great.

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This is section for 3dsmax requests :wink: I am moving this to C4D

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Oh, so this was a misunderstanding…

You can continue rendering from a manually saved file, or from an autosave. You can specify the autosave interval in render settings.

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This is now present even in Cinema