Setting SPP for multiple scenes

[daxcastro]

I have about 150 scenes to render. I tried adding one scene and then setting "render settings" before adding more scenes, but they all come in at -1, -1. How can I set them all at once rather than clicking on each individual scene and setting manually?

Also... after rendering all night all the scenes, I came in this morning and there are no png files saved anywhere? Did I miss something? When the cue says succes, does this mean successfully rendered and not saved? I would think it would mean the file has been rendered and saved.

Sorry.. these might be noob questions but I have been a sketchup and C4D user for many years. this is just a new tool for me.

Thanks in advance.


EDIT: I found the rendered files :
Thanks to another post (Windows 7) C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/Indigo Renderer/renders.

Dax

[galinette]

The most simple would be rendering in command line I guess. You can specify -haltspp <number> when rendering with the command line. You can also specify output file. I did a 3D animation with 2800 renders once using this

Etienne

[daxcastro]

Thanks. This is a bit new for me using commandlines etc. http://youtu.be/FW4kxJc2ecA
this is my very first attempt at exporting from Sketchup. Its not great, but it isn't terrible either.

[galinette]

Actually, if you have a spreadsheet program and a good text editor such as notepad++, and are not familiar with script, you can make a spreadsheet with:
- First column : indigo.exe in every cell
- Second column : -haltspp 2000 (for instance) in every cell
- Third column : the name of the igs files
- If necessary, other parameters such as output file name

Then copy all in notepad++, and save under .bat
This should make a batch file rendering everything (you may have to add the indigo path)

Etienne

[Zom-B]

You also can simply use Indigos Render-Que capabilities to do your animations.
Such a Q file is a simple txt saved as "NameMe.igq" and contains code like that here:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<render_queue>
	<item>
		<scene_path>F:/bedroom.pigs</scene_path>
		<halt_spp>-1</halt_spp>
		<halt_time>-1</halt_time>
		<seed>0</seed>
	</item>
	<item>
		<scene_path>F:\couch.pigs</scene_path>
		<halt_spp>-1</halt_spp>
		<halt_time>-1</halt_time>
		<seed>0</seed>
	</item>
</render_queue>

Edit the halt parameters to your need. Having the same seed for each scene will result in "static noise" (if rendered not long enough) in the final animation, I prefer some random seed for different noise patterns in each frame, so a temporal denoiser can be used to kill it very efficiently

open that file in indigo and all your scenes will be loaded in the Q.

[galinette]

I did not have that option at the time, but it seems great

Etienne

[OnoSendai]

Hi daxcastro,
We plan to make it so that you can select multiple scenes in the render queue. Then when you set the halt time or spp, it will set it for all selected scenes.
This will hopefully be done soon.

nick

[fused]

We implemted deleting and editing of multiple items in the render queue.

In the next release you'll be able the edit the halt time, halt spp and seed of multiple items.

Cheers!

[Juju]

oooohhh, that sounds soooo sxy, thx ppl!