It would be most useful if the “specify tiles to re-render” dialog window was able to display a screen-grab image in the background of the particular active viewport ($camera) of the custom tile selection window. This would aid the user in selecting the correct tiles to re-render easily.
Thx,
Mike
I’ve logged this as a feature request. We’ll see what we can do!
Cheers,
- Ryan
It is supposed to display the last assembled image for the current frame (if it exists at the image output destination).
I never assumed you would specify tiles before you finished a previous render of the frame.
Your idea sounds good though.
Thanks Bobo for responding on this one…
An additional but related condition is when the user has sent the tile render job to the queue and discovers during network rendering that the tiles are too large in terms of memory footprint for whatever renderer set-up we are using. The artist then needs to re-submit the job with a smaller tile size, particularly taking into account any troublesome areas (tiles) which are very intense. If the artist had a camera screen-grab in the background of the “specify tiles to re-render” window with the tile horizontal and vertical overlay, then it would be easier to work out a sweet spot for the number of tiles that is required instead of going over the top and sending say, 100 or 200 tile jobs…!
Thanks,
Mike
Hi Bobo,
Have you been able to implement this feature for the forthcoming maintenance release of Deadline?
Thanks,
Mike
Hey Mike,
This won’t be making it into the maintenance release we’re doing this week. I looked into this briefly, and there are maxscript functions to get the selected viewport as an image that we can display as the background in the tile selector. The problem is that it grabs the entire viewport, which doesn’t necessarily represent what the final image would look like. Because of this, exact tile selection isn’t very reliable. It’s still logged as a feature request, and we’ll probably look at it again for a future release.
Cheers,
- Ryan