Indigo Renderer Forum

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

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

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!!!

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 )

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.

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

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!

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)

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

M'enfin?!