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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: PeterParker on November 21, 2010, 08:15:33 AM

Title: improvement suggestion
Post by: PeterParker on November 21, 2010, 08:15:33 AM
Hello to everyone,

i would like to make an improvement suggestion:

What about a RESUME RENDER function?

Everybody knows the problem. When you render things it can take ages till they finished.
But when you run out of steam to wait for the result just run it next day at the point where you finished the rendering.
This means Resume Rendering a function also known in the 3 D Programm Vue.

Maybe this is a very good improvement for Terragen 2

Whats your opinion

Best Regards

Peter
Title: Re: improvement suggestion
Post by: Tangled-Universe on November 21, 2010, 08:28:18 AM
This has been discussed quite often already, see the search results on this for instance.
Shortly summarized the reason it still isn't available is because it is very difficult to incorporate it into the renderer due to its nature of design.
This doesn't clear things up, but only Matt could explain exactly why.
My guess for instance would be that the GI calculations are likely to differ, so one must find a way to store this cache.

IMO, there's not a desperate need for it at the moment, since TG2 renders pretty fast.
Unless you have a very complicated scene or use extreme render settings which are likely totally unnecessary.
Unfortunately the latter is the reason most of the times people have such long rendertimes.
In general you should be able to render a high def picture <10h in reasonable to good quality on a average spec'd machine.

Martin
Title: Re: improvement suggestion
Post by: PeterParker on November 21, 2010, 08:58:54 AM
Thank you for your opinion

Regards

Peter
Title: Re: improvement suggestion
Post by: dhavalmistry on November 21, 2010, 05:23:07 PM
I would like to make another suggestion. Not sure if this has been discussed already but I would really like a button that will turn the values of each setting to its default value.

I hope PeterParker dont mind me spamming his thread.
Title: Re: improvement suggestion
Post by: Goms on November 22, 2010, 02:12:40 AM
dhavalmistry, I don't think this would be handy. You could do this for a whole node; which would be the same as just adding a new one. Or per value, which would lead to hundreds of more buttons. Also, a global button is already there,- just select file->new. ;)
Title: Re: improvement suggestion
Post by: goldfarb on November 22, 2010, 02:49:20 AM
revert to default is an idea I support...
and you don't need more buttons - you could have one button on the node or just a menu entry 'revert selected node to default'
or have the default setting listed in the documentation - or in the help popup
and for parameters use a right click menu 'revert parameter to default'
Houdini uses these methods and not having it is a bummer.
Title: Re: improvement suggestion
Post by: Walli on November 22, 2010, 04:57:48 AM
rightclick on parameter->reset to default. Nice thing to have I think.
Title: Re: improvement suggestion
Post by: j meyer on November 22, 2010, 10:08:43 AM
Yup,reset to default would be a good feature,definitely!