Hi All
I noticed that early completion or suspending of a 3ds Max Corona animation render fails to save out the current tasks’ incomplete renders, which is a bit of shame. With Maxwell render this works better and frames are copied back when a job is suspended or completed early.
Would it be possible to update the plugin to have an option to do this?
Thanks
David
Hey David,
So I just took a quick look at what we are doing for this and currently we are just letting the renderer handle everything. When rendering with Maxwell they are rewriting their saved image as it continues to render. While Corona is only saving a rendered image when a render is completed. when a job is suspended or completed early we are killing the process so it is not actually stopping the render.
As is I don’t believe there is a way for us to modify this at the plugin level in order to be able to get Corona to save out there image mid render. From some testing it appears that Corona does have an autoSave setting in their render settings (Render Setup -> System -> System Settings -> Autosave) which should be able to be used as a way save output while rendering.
Grant
Just a note to say, V-Ray also has a very similar system which is caused “resumable rendering”, where a render is saved out to disk if interrupted and can be resumed later. You must render to certain image file format for this feature. Please see official V-Ray docs for more info. Dependent on you using latest version of V-Ray as well. Deadline as far as I can tell, seems to respect this workflow just fine as well.