Re: Custom Renderer Abort Callback

2012-05-01 Thread Nicolas Burtnyk
That part I get. I guess I'm confused by some of the statements in the docs about calling UnlockScene before checking the abort flag and by the example code which seems to use a simple abort flag in some cases and a Win32 Event in others. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Ben Houston

Re: Custom Renderer Abort Callback

2012-05-01 Thread Ben Houston
I assume you are referring to this: http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/sdkdocs/cb_Renderer_Abort.htm#Rzmcb_Renderer_Abort Currently we are not locking and unlocking the scene, but may be we should be. I will look into that. I guess if the user modifies the scene during our data query, they

Re: Custom Renderer Abort Callback

2012-05-01 Thread Steven Caron
wouldn't you want to use it with multi threaded render be sure all threads get shut down? this is just a guess as i have no experience with the abort callback on a custom renderer, but i think halfdan wrote the example and i personally think he is a pretty smart dood. s On Tue, May 1, 2012 at