You are right, this might be a cool feature to add. The implementation might be tricky though. But Brecht and Thomas are the cycles experts.
/Jürgen Am 15.06.2013 um 09:48 schrieb Knapp <[email protected]>: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Jürgen Herrmann <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> afaik there is no render pause implemented in cycles or BI. As for cycles >> you could just turn down the number of threads in the performance panel of >> the render settings ;) >> >> /Jürgen > > I know it is not there. I was asking more, how hard would it be to add > to cycles? When you have to render 6000 samples it can take 20 hours > on my machine. Pausing it to check email or whatever could be a good > addition to Blender. I thought it might be easy to add. > > -- > Douglas E Knapp > > Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies > with open source software! > http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php > > Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: > http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm > Please link to me and trade links with me! > > Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. > http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page > http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
