Resume render?

[Oleg S.]

Hello! I have a question: Is it possible to use deferred rendering Terragen like Resume Render in Vue?

[Hannes]

That would be fantastic, but no. Unfortunately not (yet!!!!!!).

[Upon Infinity]

You can pause it?... Probably not what you're looking for. 


I did a post about this awhile back on how you can control your rendering process while away from your computer.

See this:  http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,15703.msg152644.html#msg152644

[Oleg S.]

Thanks, but I meant to stop rendering, save and close the file and continue it the next day from the same point rendering. It would be very convenient. Do you agree?

[TheBadger]

It would be very convenient. Do you agree?

YES!!

[zaxxon]

Ditto!

[jaf]

That was one of my favorite features of Bryce.    Not sure why TG3 can't do it.  I'm pretty sure the saved file would be quite large, but disk space is cheap now.  It may be impossible just because of the way the TG3 render engine works.

[Thelby]

You can always use the "Crop" feature. It is not the same I know, but it works sufficiently well.

Render like the top 60% today and when finished, save the file and close.
Tomorrow open the file, adjust the Crop to the Bottom 60% and render and then put them together in Photoshop or whatever your editing software is.

Now why 60%? Because the camera sees the edges as the end of the lens and therefore distorts the middle cropped edge. It also distorts the outer edges, but they do not matter in this case. So by rendering 60% on both Top and Bottom you get some overlap into the area not as badly distorted by the edge of the camera. Sometimes I have to even go to 65 or 70%.
Again, it is not the same, but it will accomplish what you want it to.

[PabloMack]

If your render is an animation you can quit the render at the end of a frame and then resume the next day by changing the sequence to begin with the next frame.