Interrupt rendering and continue later on?

[Gaston]

Hi!

I wonder if there is a possibility to interrupt a running render process and continue it later on.
I think this would be very useful, so one could render only at night, when computing power is not needed.

Regards
Simon

[psor]

Heya Gaston!

Welcome to the forum!

This option is not yet implemented, ... and who knows if it will
happen in the near future. At this time I use the taskmanager
to keep the Indigo threads idle and if I wanna turn off my box,
but want to render later on, I just let it hybernate ... works fine. ;o))


take care
psor

[Gaston]

Wellllllllll....


as simple as that, hm?

Yeah, really a good idea. That way it should even be possible to run a second indigo render while the other one is still sleeping, I guess...

Thanks for the hint!!

And thanx for your welcome!!!

Maybe I should (very) shortly introduce myself, to be polite:
I'm Simon (real name) or Gaston (nick name), electrical engineer from Switzerland and an abolute noobe (spelt correctly???) in rendering. One week ago I didn't know ANYTHING about Blender, Indigo, PovRay, texturing, meshing, Elephants Dream..... whatever. And computer graphics was just that very fascinating thing the guys at Pixar are doing....
I accidentally stumbled to this stuff when I saw a render of an electronic device that turned out to be made by a Eagle-to-PovRay exporter........... and now, I'm cought!!!

[manitwo]

Welcome gaston

Click STRG(CTRL) + S to stop the renderer and ENTER to go on with rendering. (the rendering console must be activated)
(thanks boweeb007 for this tip )

[mzungu]

Welcome, Gaston! (is that the same one as from Disney's Beauty & the Beast? )

Another option is to use "network rendering" on your system, running a master and a slave instance of Indigo, then just kill the slave when you need the proc power and re-start it up again when things free up. (Keep the master session going...) Follow the "documentation" link above to find out more on how to do network rendering.

[zuegs]

Hi Gaston,
nice to see another "Schwiiitzer" here...
Grüess usem Fribourgerische,
Zuegs.

[Gaston]

Thanks for the hints, guys!

@mzungu
No, I chose this name because of Gaston, the lazy, chaotic, brilliant, naive, tasteless, lovely, childish employee at the Dupuis publishing company.
Really, if you know Gaston, You know ME!

I use network rendering anyway since I have a dual core processor.

@Zuegs
When I saw your name in the post's overview I was sure you have to be a swiss guy!
I'm from Zug, by the way.
Liebe Gruess grugg!

[ZanQdo]

there should be a way to store, load and mix photons like in Winosi (I don´t even know if they are photons or rays or waves but you get the idea)

[lekane]

i read all the gaston :p
i know you perfectly hehe...
give Jeanne a hug for me

[Maluminas]

M'enfin?!